Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Waxwork \Wax"work`\, n.
   1. Work made of wax; especially, a figure or figures formed
      or partly of wax, in imitation of real beings.

   2. (Bot.) An American climbing shrub ({Celastrus scandens}).
      It bears a profusion of yellow berrylike pods, which open
      in the autumn, and display the scarlet coverings of the
      seeds.

Source : WordNet®

waxwork
     n 1: twining shrub of North America having three-valved yellow
          capsules enclosing scarlet seeds [syn: {bittersweet}, {American
          bittersweet}, {climbing bittersweet}, {false bittersweet},
           {staff vine}, {Celastrus scandens}]
     2: an effigy (usually of a famous person) made of wax [syn: {wax
        figure}]