cercous
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Waxy.
Example Sentences
- "For "making light of cercous things" Was a very wick-ed profession!"
- "One of the most striking characteristics of the Chinese maize was the nature of the endosperm, which was neither horny, starchy, nor sweet, after the manner of American varieties, but constituted a distinceet class, termed waxy or cercous because of the resemblance in texture and optical properties to hard wax."
- "In this little space were no less than five shrines, each with its presiding divinity—Sebastian, Veronica, another female show name I did not learn, but at her feet and side was quite an assortment of heads, necks, hands, feet, eyes, jaws, breasts, and kindred specimens of was chandlery. […] Here hang a cercous arm, and a hand without fingers."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more cercous (comparative)
most cercous (superlative)