(adj) having the paleness of wax; - Bram Stoker, Syn. waxlike, waxy, Example:the poor face with the same awful waxen pallor; the soldier turned his waxlike features toward him; a thin face with a waxy paleness
n. [ Cf. Wood-wax. ] (Bot.) A leguminous plant (Genista tinctoria) of Europe and Russian Asia, and adventitious in America; -- called also greenwood, greenweed, dyer's greenweed, and whin, wood-wash, wood-wax, and wood-waxen. [ 1913 Webster ]