Definition of Ceras

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

Generic synonyms: Branchia, Gill

Definition of Ceras

1. Noun. (biology) a dorsal or lateral outgrowth on the body of nudibranchs ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ceras

ceramide cholinephosphotransferase
ceramide dihexoside
ceramide glycanase
ceramide kinase
ceramide lactosidase
ceramide lactoside
ceramide lactoside lipidosis
ceramide saccharide
ceramide trihexosidase
ceramides
ceramist
ceramists
ceramo-metal casting
ceramology
cerargyrite
ceras (current term)
cerasin
cerasins
cerastium
cerata
cerate
cerated
cerates
ceratin
ceratins
ceratitid
ceratitids
ceratitis
cerato-

Literary usage of Ceras

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Geologist by Newton Horace Winchell (1889)
"It is found attached was permanent, not temporary. 8. That the Platy- ceras attached to the body of a crinoid ..."

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