Plasticine

[ plas-tuh-seen ]

/ ˈplæs təˌsin /

a brand name for a synthetic material used as a substitute for clay or wax in modeling.

Example sentences from the Web for plasticine

If no lathe be handy, glazed vases may be used as substitutes, the waste being added in plasticine to the neck and base.

Pottery, for Artists Craftsmen & Teachers |George J. Cox
The British staff officers got some plasticine and made a careful model of the ridge and the places round about it.

The Post of Honour |Richard Wilson
Roll out a long cylinder of plasticine and fit it into the groove on the upper surface of the earthenware base.

The Elements of Bacteriological Technique |John William Henry Eyre
If satisfactory insert the tube in the plasticine block next to that containing the washed cells.

The Elements of Bacteriological Technique |John William Henry Eyre

They had collected fruits and seed-vessels, had studied animalculæ through the microscope, and modelled fungi in plasticine.

The Madcap of the School |Angela Brazil

Plasticine

/ (ˈplæstɪˌsiːn) /

trademark a soft coloured material used, esp by children, for modelling