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Cereous vs Cereus - What's the difference?

cereous | cereus |

As an adjective cereous

is waxen; like wax.

As a noun cereus is

any of the genus Cereus of plants of the cactus family, natives to the Americas, from California to Chile.

cereous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (obsolete) waxen; like wax
  • (Gayton)
    (Webster 1913)

    cereus

    Noun

    (es)
  • Any of the genus Cereus of plants of the cactus family, natives to the Americas, from California to Chile.
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