noun
noun
- the soft brownish-yellow wax secreted by glands in the auditory canal of the external earNontechnical name: earwax
“earwax,” 1741, medical Latin cerumen, coined by Swiss anatomist Gaspard Bauhin (1560-1624) from Latin cera “wax” (see cere (n.)) on model of albumen; or else from Greek keroumenos “formed of wax.”
n.
- The brownish yellow, waxy secretion of the ceruminous glands of the external auditory meatus; earwax.