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Webster 1913 Edition


Cerastes


Ce-ras′tes

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Noun.
[L., a horned serpent, fr. Gr.
κεράστησ
horned, fr.
κέρασ
horn.]
(Zool.)
A genus of poisonous African serpents, with a horny scale over each eye; the horned viper.

Webster 1828 Edition


Cerastes

CERASTES

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Noun.
In zoology, the name of a serpent, of the genus Coluber, which the ancients supposed to have horns.

Definition 2024


cerastes

cerastes

Latin

Noun

cerastēs m (genitive cerastae); first declension

  1. horned viper (of genus Cerastes)

Inflection

First declension, masculine Greek type with nominative singular in -ēs.

Case Singular Plural
nominative cerastēs cerastae
genitive cerastae cerastārum
dative cerastae cerastīs
accusative cerastēn cerastās
ablative cerastē cerastīs
vocative cerastē cerastae

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