waxy

It doesn’t get any pettier and mean-girlie than “Did she sandblast her face or something? It’s very waxy.”

The oaks have waxy, cup-shaped leaves — not only do they rarely go up in flame, but they can catch embers out of the sky and extinguish them, Yelchin said.

For example, drought prompts plants to thicken the waxy cuticle layer on leaf surfaces.

I’m not sobbing because Zverev won or because my hands remind me of my grandmother’s, though slightly less waxy, veiny and spotted.

Sperm whales derive their name from the waxy, liquid substance produced in their skulls by a massive biological structure called the spermaceti organ.