Crossword clues for cereus
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cereus \Ce"re*us\, n. [L., a wax candle, fr. cera wax. So named from the resemblance of one species to the columnar shape of a wax candle.] (Bot.) A genus of plants of the Cactus family. They are natives of America, from California to Chili.
Note: Although several species flower in the night, the name Night-blooming cereus is specially applied to the Cereus grandiflorus, which is cultivated for its beautiful, shortlived flowers. The Cereus giganteus, whose columnar trunk is sometimes sixty feet in height, is a striking feature of the scenery of New Mexico, Texas, etc.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cactus genus, 1730, from Latin cereus "waxen, waxy," from cera "wax" (see cere (n.)). So called from its shape, which suggests a candle.
Wiktionary
n. Any of the genus ''Cereus'' of plants of the cactus family, natives to the Americas, from California to Chile.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Cereus is a genus of sea anemones in the family Sagartiidae.
Cereus, waxy in Latin, may refer to:
- Cereus (anemone), a genus of sea anemones in the family Sagartiidae
- Cereus (plant), a genus of cacti (the family Cactaceae)
- Ceroid cactus, any of a number of cacti with very elongated bodies, including columnar growth cacti and epiphytic cacti
- Aleurocybotus cereus, a whitefly species in the genus Aleurocybotus
- Bacillus cereus, an endemic, soil-dwelling, Gram-positive, rod-shaped, beta hemolytic bacterium species
- Cereus Poker Network, an online poker network
Usage examples of "cereus".
A maidservant poured wine and brought a tray of delicacies, withdrawing with the immaculate discretion of one trained to serve an adept of Cereus House.
The first such event I attended was as a child not quite ten, at Cereus House.
In Cereus House, we were taught to move like a swaying willow, limbs disposed to grace, heads high with pride.
So it has ever been, since I was a child at Cereus House, whipped for disobedience, a delicious languor suffusing my aching flesh.
The Great Hall of Cereus House was filled with light and gaiety, and all the adepts of the Thirteen Houses in their finery, and I had come in time to see the Sun Prince revealed.
I was trained in Cereus House, Fkst of the Thirteen Houses of the Court of Night-Blooming Flowers.
So said Cecilie Laveau-Penin, who taught me in the arts, and she should know, who was the pride of Cereus House.
I saw her, in the courtyard of Cereus House, the day she sold me into servitude.
No, instead my mother, whom after all, I must bless for it, took her courage in both hands and begged an audience with the Dowayne of Cereus House.
Of the Thirteen Houses, Night-Blooming Cereus is and has always been First.
But by any accounting, the Dowayne of Cereus House remained a formidable figure.
Life in Cereus House settled quickly into its own rhythm, unchanging and ceaseless.
If this sounds harsh, understand too what I learned at Cereus House: Blessed Elua loved me nonetheless for it.
But his name was spoken with a certain hush by the Dowayne of Cereus House, and there was no adept but took his or her cue from her.
After three years in pale, swooning Cereus House, he was positively exotic to my eyes.