cereous

English

Etymology

From Latin cereus, from cera (“wax”).

Adjective

cereous (comparative more cereous, superlative most cereous)

  1. (obsolete) waxen; like wax
    • Gayton
      At night he [the bee] stores up his day's gatherings, and what is worth his observation goes into his cereous tables.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for cereous in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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