wax doll

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English

Noun

wax doll (plural wax dolls)

  1. (British, dialect) The common fumitory, Fumaria officinalis.
    • 1855, Anne Pratt, The Flowering Plants and Ferns of Great Britain:
      The flowers are smaller than those of the species last described; they are rose-coloured, and tipped with purple; and children, in many parts of Kent, call them wax dolls.