"cercous" meaning in All languages combined

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        "2": "la",
        "3": "cera",
        "4": "",
        "5": "wax"
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      "expansion": "Latin cera (“wax”)",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Latin cera (“wax”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more cercous",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most cercous",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
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      "expansion": "cercous (comparative more cercous, superlative most cercous)",
      "name": "en-adj"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1904, John Godfrey Saxe, “Woman”, in Of tragedy, of humor;:",
          "text": "For \"making light of cercous things\" Was a very wick-ed profession!",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1913, G. N. Collins, J. H. Kempton, “Inheritance of Waxy Endosperm in Hybrids of Chinese Maize”, in Proceedings of the Fourth International Congress of Genetics, page 347:",
          "text": "One of the most striking characteristics of the Chinese maize was the nature of the endosperm, which was neither horny, starchy, nor sweet, after the manner of American varieties, but constituted a distinceet class, termed waxy or cercous because of the resemblance in texture and optical properties to hard wax.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2024, Thomas Ewbank, Life in Brazil, page 160:",
          "text": "In this little space were no less than five shrines, each with its presiding divinity—Sebastian, Veronica, another female show name I did not learn, but at her feet and side was quite an assortment of heads, necks, hands, feet, eyes, jaws, breasts, and kindred specimens of was chandlery. […] Here hang a cercous arm, and a hand without fingers.",
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        "Waxy."
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        "2": "la",
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      "name": "bor"
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Latin cera (“wax”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more cercous",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most cercous",
      "tags": [
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          "ref": "1904, John Godfrey Saxe, “Woman”, in Of tragedy, of humor;:",
          "text": "For \"making light of cercous things\" Was a very wick-ed profession!",
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        },
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          "ref": "1913, G. N. Collins, J. H. Kempton, “Inheritance of Waxy Endosperm in Hybrids of Chinese Maize”, in Proceedings of the Fourth International Congress of Genetics, page 347:",
          "text": "One of the most striking characteristics of the Chinese maize was the nature of the endosperm, which was neither horny, starchy, nor sweet, after the manner of American varieties, but constituted a distinceet class, termed waxy or cercous because of the resemblance in texture and optical properties to hard wax.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2024, Thomas Ewbank, Life in Brazil, page 160:",
          "text": "In this little space were no less than five shrines, each with its presiding divinity—Sebastian, Veronica, another female show name I did not learn, but at her feet and side was quite an assortment of heads, necks, hands, feet, eyes, jaws, breasts, and kindred specimens of was chandlery. […] Here hang a cercous arm, and a hand without fingers.",
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