waxiness

For culinary purposes, varieties are often differentiated by their waxiness.

At last, the waxiness of the face was gone and the milky eyes stared forward, corrupted but defiant.

Qualities affected may include starchiness, sweetness, waxiness, or other aspects.

Otherwise, Anya or pink fir apple potatoes have the requisite waxiness.

In general they are extrusions of jaw-tiringly chewy, chemical-smelling waxiness.

He turned the light down on her; there she was, her face bending into shadow, as though Latour had painted its waxiness.

Kerguelen was tired: his sallow skin had the grey waxiness of strain and weariness.

Two circulatory ducts dented the flesh of her neck, and her skin still had a peculiar waxiness.

This waxiness causes it to be a solid at room temperature (20 C, which is much lower than typical daytime temperatures of Mangala).

Not an all-over waxiness though, there was no blood on my face now but the pine needles had left their mark, I looked like someone with galloping impetigo.

Even to Pauli's untrained eyes, her skin had the waxiness she had noted in people entering the early stages of the madness, and her eyes were very bright.

While not as complex as Cabot's long-aged Cheddars, it has some of the crumble and tang of an artisanal cheese, but none of the waxiness of other supermarket brands.

Each man, paired off with an oppo., was responsible for checking him regularly for the first signs of frost-nip or frost-bite, when the evil-looking waxiness began showing on the extremities: nose, fingers, ears.

"I could have told you it was methoamyline," McCoy growled, glancing back at the high diagnostic bed where Helen lay, her dark, level brows black and startling against the gray waxiness of her face.

It mimics the original down to the thick waxiness of the paper, uneveness of the pages, simulated worm-holes, and variations of coloring from vivid to pale, reproduced from thousands of photographs of the original.

Jenny said, and the memory of the King's face flashed across her mind; how hollow and brittle he had looked, and how, like Bond, the paint on his face had seemed to stand out from the waxiness beneath.

Early varieties, such as Discovery, Beauty of Bath and Worcester Pearmain, ripen in late summer and tend to be brightly coloured - sometimes with red blushing into their flesh - sweet, juicy and with a natural waxiness.

Slowly, as they carried out the survival drill they had so often exercised, the waxiness disappeared from Grant's finger tips, the edges of his ears, the tip and bridge of his nose; the spasms which shuddered the length of his body, gradually became less frequent.