ceras

1. 1.

   one of the often brightly colored and branching hornlike structures on the back of the nudibranch (and other related mollusks) that serve as gills

   Broadergill

Other forms of ceras

plural

cerases·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ceras

What does ceras mean?

ceras means "one of the often brightly colored and branching hornlike structures on the back of the nudibranch (and other related mollusks) that serve as gills".

How many syllables are in ceras?

ceras has 2 syllables: ce-ras. The stress falls on "ce".

Is ceras a common word?

ceras is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.