half-waxen en · ADJ
Etymology
From Middle English half-waxen, equivalent to half- + waxen (“grown”).
Meanings
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(not-comparable) half-grown; partially completed; incomplete
Beyond the marina, lights danced on the dark water—buoys, boats, a half-waxen moon.
2015, Kevin Egan, The Missing Piece:That ghastly broken doll — half-waxen, half-human — stumbled its way in and out of Joan's dreams. . . . […]
1989, Irene Rathbone, We That Were Young: