ceres








noun

  1. a pre-Roman goddess of agriculture under whose name the Romans adopted the worship of the Greek goddess Demeter.
  2. Astronomy. the first asteroid to be discovered, being the largest and one of the brightest.
  3. a town in central California.

noun Ornithology.

  1. a fleshy, membranous covering of the base of the upper mandible of a bird, especially a bird of prey or a parrot, through which the nostrils open.

verb (used with object), cered, cer·ing.

  1. Archaic. to wrap in or as if in a cerecloth, especially a corpse.
  2. Obsolete. to wax.

noun

  1. the Roman goddess of agricultureGreek counterpart: Demeter

noun

  1. the smallest dwarf planet in the solar system, located in the asteroid belt. It has a diameter of 930 kilometres

noun

  1. a soft waxy swelling, containing the nostrils, at the base of the upper beak in such birds as the parrot

verb

  1. (tr) to wrap (a corpse) in a cerecloth

Roman goddess of agriculture (identified with Greek Demeter), also the name given to the first-found and largest asteroid (discovered 1801); see cereal. Her festival, Cerealia, was April 10.

n.

late 15c., from French cire “wax” (12c.), from Latin cera “wax, wax seal, wax writing tablet,” related to Greek keros “beeswax,” of unknown origin.

  1. The closest dwarf planet to the Sun , with an orbit in the asteroid belt. Ceres was the first object in the asteroid belt to be discovered (1801). Initially considered a planet, it was reclassified as an asteroid in the mid-1800s and as a dwarf planet in 2006. It has a diameter of about 960 km (595 mi). See more at dwarf planet.

The Roman name for Demeter, the Greek and Roman goddess of agriculture.

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