wax doll

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.