Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to the cerris or bitter oak.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Of or pertaining to the cerris.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or relating to the cerris.
Etymologies
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Latin cerreus, from cerrus a kind of oak.
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Examples
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With chaplets green of cerrial-oak [76] were crown'd, 230
The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 2 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes John Dryden 1665
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A numerous troop, and all their heads around With chaplets green of cerrial-oak were crown'd.
The Works of the English Poets.: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical 1779
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