cere – English noun declension

English noun forms of cere

Noun: cere

Singular	cere
Plural	ceres

Sample Sentences

The cere is the fleshy spot just above the beak where the nostrils, or nares, are located. In some species, like the parakeet, the cere is prominent; in others, the cere is covered by feathers. Both the cere and the nares should be clean[…] [[2021, Nikki Moustaki, Parrots For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 182:]

Nouns inflected like cere

soldier's woundwort, Nicosian, whopper, greypate, tactile sign language, chronotrope, Rosie Lee, dissentient, photoinactivator, sulphonediimine, coastal waterfall, residuary devise, bituminization, nitrosonaphthol, smṛiti, geosphere, backscreen, mensuralist, flocculate, flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

From Middle English sere, from Old French cire, from Latin cēra (“wax, cere”), or via Latin cērō (“to smear or coat with wax”). See: Middle English Nouns 'sere', Latin Nouns 'cēra'.