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‖ Cereus Bot.|ˈsɪəriːəs|
[L. cēreus waxen, resembling wax, f. cēra wax.]
A large genus of cactuses, natives of tropical America, remarkable for their singularity of form and the beauty of their flowers; the Torch-thistle.
1730Stack in Phil. Trans. XXXVI. 462 This Cereus..exposed in open air all Summer, grew without pushing forth Branches. 1767J. Abercrombie Ev. Man own Gard. (1803) 382 The tenderer sorts of cereuses. 1844Tupper Heart iv. 38 Lustrous to look upon, even as the night-blowing Cereus. 1872Reade Put yourself, &c. II. xi. 173. |