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# beeswax

«beeswax» in Mova's school dictionary: **The yellow wax that honeybees make to build their honeycomb** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (beeswax, uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The yellow wax that honeybees make to build their honeycomb. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beeswax/#m1)

2) This wax used to make candles, polish, crayons and lip balm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beeswax/#m2)

3) (US, informal) In «none of your beeswax», a playful way to say «none of your business». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beeswax/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons about bees, workers make wax from glands on their bodies and build hexagon-shaped cells. In everyday life: beeswax candles, wood polish, wax wraps for sandwiches. The jokey phrase is common among US children.

### examples

- Bees build their honeycomb out of beeswax. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beeswax/#x1)
- We made candles from beeswax in craft club. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beeswax/#x2)
- Mum polishes the old table with beeswax. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beeswax/#x3)
- "What's in the box?" "None of your beeswax!" [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beeswax/#x4)
- My sandwich is wrapped in a beeswax wrap instead of plastic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beeswax/#x5)
- Beeswax melts if you leave it in the sun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beeswax/#x6)

### note

Uncountable: some beeswax, not «a beeswax». One word. «None of your beeswax» is cheeky; don't say it to a teacher.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «beeswax» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beeswax/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.