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5 letters · 7 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun (Roman mythology) goddess of agriculture; counterpart of Greek Demeter
noun the largest asteroid and the first discovered
noun the fleshy, waxy covering at the base of the upper beak of some birds
originLearned borrowing from Latin Cerēs, goddess of the bounty, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- (“to grow, to nourish”). More at create.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0