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INSECT WAX

Specialty Definition: INSECT WAX

DomainDefinition

Chemistry

Wax found mainly in China, secreted and deposited by insects on the branches of certain ash trees. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: INSECT WAX

Language Translations for "INSECT WAX"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

(white wax). (various references)

   

Danish

  

insektvoks (chinese wax, tree wax), traevoks (chinese wax, grafting wax, tree wax, tree wound dressing), kinesisk voks (chinese wax, tree wax). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

insektenwas (chinese wax, tree wax), Pe-la (chinese wax, tree wax), chinese was (chinese wax, tree wax). (various references)

   

French

  

cire dite de Chine, cire d'insectes, cire d'arbre. (various references)

   

German

  

Insektenwachs, Chinawachs (chinese wax, tree wax). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κερί Κίνας (chinese wax, tree wax), κερί εντόμων (chinese wax, tree wax), κερί το οποίο εκκρίνεται και αποτίθεται από έντομα τα οποία ζουν ειδικά στην Κίνα,στα κλαδιά ορισμένων φλαμουριών (chinese wax, tree wax), δενδροκηρός (chinese wax, tree wax). (various references)

   

Italian

  

cera d'insetti, cera di insetti (chinese wax, tree wax), cera detta della Cina (chinese wax, tree wax), cera d'alberi (chinese wax, tree wax). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

insectay axway

   

Portuguese

  

cera de insectos (chinese wax, tree wax), cera de árvore (chinese wax, tree wax), cera da China (chinese wax, tree wax). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

cera de insectos (chinese wax, tree wax), cera de China (chinese wax, tree wax), cera de árbol (chinese wax, tree wax). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: INSECT WAX

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-n-s-t-w-x"

-2 letters: acetins, antisex, cineast, inexact, sextain, tawnies, taxwise, waniest, waxiest.

-3 letters: acetin, actins, antics, ascent, axenic, axites, casein, centai, centas, enacts, enatic, exacts, incase, incest, insect, nastic, nicest, secant, sextan, stance, taxies, tenias, tineas, tisane, twains, twines, winces, wisent, xenias.

-4 letters: acnes, actin, anise, antes, antic, antis, axite, cains, canes, canst, cants, caste, cates.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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1. Translations: Modern
2. Anagrams
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