Cerastium
any of various low-growing plants of the genus Cerastium, having leaves covered with whitish or grayish down and small white flowers, and including mouse-ear chickweed and snow-in-summer.
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a combining form meaning “horn,” “cornea,” used in the formation of compound words: ceratodus. cerat- pref. Variant of kerato-.
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variant of cerat- before a consonant: ceratosaur. combining form denoting horn or a hornlike part: ceratodus (anatomy) denoting the cornea word-forming element meaning “horn,” from Latinized comb. form of Greek keras “horn” (see kerato-). cerato- pref. Variant of kerato-.
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