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  • noun Plural of ceras.

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  • noun Plural form of ceras.

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Examples

  • (Etymologically primus in cera, sc. in tabula cerata, the first in a list of a class of officials)

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

  • She has other tricks up her sleeve, too: the cerata are loosely attached.

    BC Bloggers Wanderin' Weeta 2010

  • So somehow she eats the anemones, stinging cells and all, without triggering the firing mechanism, then transports those nematocysts to her own cerata.

    BC Bloggers 2010

  • For the scientific record, Goddard describes the new species as "characterized externally by its smooth rhinophores; long tail and cephalic tentacles; pointed foot corners; red and orange tipped cerata; and lack of pigmentation on the head, body and head tentacles."

    Impact Lab asclepius 2010

  • She has other tricks up her sleeve, too: the cerata are loosely attached.

    BC Bloggers 2010

  • The cerata at the other end look like fingers on a hand.

    BC Bloggers Wanderin' Weeta 2010

  • For the scientific record, Goddard describes the new species as "characterized externally by its smooth rhinophores; long tail and cephalic tentacles; pointed foot corners; red and orange tipped cerata; and lack of pigmentation on the head, body and head tentacles."

    Impact Lab asclepius 2010

  • So somehow she eats the anemones, stinging cells and all, without triggering the firing mechanism, then transports those nematocysts to her own cerata.

    BC Bloggers Wanderin' Weeta 2010

  • The cerata at the other end look like fingers on a hand.

    BC Bloggers 2010

  • Zi 'xqitak lemfntc ma. cerata premunCifT; ita entnfralidins - reddifo - let.

    Pedanii Dioscoridis Anazarbei De medica materia libri sex 1554

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