A cere (from Latin cera, "wax") is a fleshy, often waxy area above a bird's beak. Budgerigars are dimorphic because the males' ceres turn bright blue upon maturity, while the females' ceres turn tan. The female budgies' ceres also appear wrinkled, to a greater extent during periods of fertility. Immature budgies have pale pinkish ceres which are smooth and shiny. The nares are set within the cere. ...

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Ceres:

The Roman Goddess of agriculture and fertility (Greek Goddess Demeter).

(See also: Ceres, Body Mind and Soul)

CERES - 1. Eleusinian Goddess of Grain.

2. a planetoid between Mars and Jupiter. (NAD)

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The story revolves around a teenager girl named Aya and her twin brother Aki, members of a wealthy and powerful Mikage family. On their sixteenth birthday, they are called to gather in their family home to be given a special present. The present was actually some sort of test -- which Aya failed. She is found to be a reincarnation of a tennyō (celestial maiden), and when shaken, she will transform into Ceres, the tennyo. According to the legend, if left to live, the reincarnation of Ceres will bring ruin upon the Mikage family ...

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In The Place Names of Fife and Kinross, by WM Liddall (Wm Green & Sons, 1896) it was suggested that Ceres was derived from the Norse syr + reit = enclosure for swine. It was suggested that it might be connected with St Cyrus. There is no reference to a St Cyrus in the Penguin Dictionary of Saints other than Cyrus of Alexandria (c303). The village of St Cyrus, Kincardineshire, seems to have been named after St Cyr or Ciricus (Quiricus) martyr of Tarsus. The 1882 Ordnance Gazette ...

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Ceres, Scotland, Ceres, Scotland - Origin of name, Ceres, Scotland - The village, Ceres, Scotland - Ceres Games, Ceres, Scotland - Parish Church

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The following places are called Cáceres: Cáceres Province in Spain. Cáceres, Spain, the capital of Cáceres Province. Cáceres, Mato Grosso, in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso Other related archivesCáceres Province, Cáceres, Mato Grosso, Cáceres, Spain, Spain

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Ceres is a village in Fife, Scotland. Ceres Scotland - Origin of name. In The Place Names of Fife and Kinross, by WM Liddall (Wm Green & Sons, 1896) it was suggested that Ceres was derived from the Norse syr + reit = enclosure for swine. It was suggested that it might be connected with St Cyrus. There is no reference to a St Cyrus in the Penguin Dictionary of Saints other than Cyrus of Alexandria (c303). The village of St Cyrus, Kincardineshire, seems to have been named after ...

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• Ceres Scotland - The village
• Ceres Scotland - Ceres Games
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1 Ceres ([ˈsi.riz], Latin Cerēs) was the first asteroid to be discovered. It was discovered on January 1, 1801, by Giuseppe Piazzi. With a diameter of about 950 km it is by far the largest and most massive asteroid in the asteroid belt: It is over half as massive as the rest of the belt put together. 1 Ceres - Name. Ceres was originally named Ceres Ferdinandea after both the mythological figure Ceres (Roman goddess of plants and motherly ...

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Ceres, Celestial Legend (妖しのセレス, Ayashi no Seresu or Ayashi no Ceres), is a 14-volume shōjo manga series by Yū Watase, the creator of the popular manga/anime series Fushigi Yūgi. There is also the anime with the same title, which runs in 24 episodes in length. The manga is published in English by VIZ Media. Ayashi no Ceres was serialized from 1996 to 2000 in the bi-weekly Japanese manga magazine Shōjo Comic. The original Japanese title is Ayashi n ...

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Some of the moons of the outer planets of the solar system are large enough to be suitable places for colonization. Many of the larger moons contain water ice, liquid water, and organic compounds that might be useful for rocket fuel production among other things. Colonies in the outer solar system could also serve as centres for long term investigation of the planet and the other moons. In particular, robotic devices could be controlled by humans without the very long time delays needed to communicate with Earth. There have also been proposa ...

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• Colonization of the outer solar system - Ceres
• Colonization of the outer solar system - Jupiter
• Colonization of the outer solar system - Europa
• Colonization of the outer solar system - Ganymede
• Colonization of the outer solar system - Callisto
• Colonization of the outer solar system - Saturn
• Colonization of the outer solar system - Titan
• Colonization of the outer solar system - Uranus
• Colonization of the outer solar system - Neptune
• Colonization of the outer solar system - Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud

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Jupiter Mars Quirinus Vesta Juno Fortuna Minerva Mercury Vulcan Ceres Venus Lares The Flamens Bona Dea Carmenta Camenae Dea Dia Convector Flora Lupercus Pales Pomona Egeria Ceres, in Roman mythology, equivalent to the Greek Demeter, daughter of Saturn and Rhea, wife-sister of Jupiter, mother of Proserpina by Jupiter, sister ...

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The Aventine Hill is one of the seven hills that ancient Rome was built on. It was a strategic point in controlling trade on the River Tiber, and was fully fortified by 1000 AD. During Fascism, many deputies of the opposition retired on this hill after the murder of Giacomo Matteotti, here ending - by the so-called "Aventinian Secession" - their presence at the Parliament and consequently their political activity. The hill is now an elegant residential p ...

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Cerealia was a 7-day holiday celebrated in ancient Rome in honor of the goddess Ceres. The exact dates of the April festival are uncertain: it may have started on April 12 and ended on April 19 (Or it may have started on the Ides of April, i.e. April 13, or even on April 7.) In Rome, this was the primary festival of Ceres and was accompanied by the Ludi Ceriales or "Games of Ceres" in the Circus Maximus. Ovid's description (Fasti iv.494) mentions that Ceres/Demeter's search for her lost daughter Proserpina was represented by women clothe ...

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Cereology is the study of Crop Circles. The term appears to come from Ceres, the Roman god of Agriculture and the Greek root -logein, meaning "to study". However, like many things regarding crop circles, this definition is also unclear as the term may come from the word Cereal instead of Ceres since most crop circles are found in fields with crops that are or can be made into cereal, such as

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Jupiter Mars Quirinus Vesta Juno Fortuna Minerva Mercury Vulcan Ceres Venus Lares The Flamens Bona Dea Carmenta Camenae Dea Dia Convector Flora Lupercus Pales Pomona Egeria In Roman mythology, Carmenta was the goddess of childbirth and prophecy, a ...

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Roman Mythology Jupiter Mars Quirinus Divus Julius Divus Augustus Juno Vesta Minerva Mercury Vulcan Ceres Venus Diana Lares Fortuna Aeneas Romulus Numa Early Kings Pontifex Maximus Rex Sacrorum Vestal Virgins Flamen Dialis The Flamens

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Jupiter Mars Quirinus Vesta Juno Fortuna Minerva Mercury Vulcan Ceres Venus Lares The Flamens Penates Genius Manes Larvae Lemures Terminus Lares (pl.) (also called ...

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Roman Mythology Jupiter Mars Quirinus Divus Julius Divus Augustus Juno Vesta Minerva Mercury Vulcan Ceres Venus Diana Lares Fortuna Aeneas Romulus Numa Early Kings Pontifex Maximus Rex Sacrorum Vestal Virgins Flamen Dialis The Flame ...

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The word Larvae also is the plural of larva, the juvenile form of animals with indirect development. See larva. Jupiter Mars Quirinus Vesta Juno Fortuna Minerva Mercury Vulcan Ceres Venus Lares The Flamens Penates Genius Manes LarvaeIncluding:

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In Roman mythology, the god Convector oversaw the bringing in of the crops from the fields. Other related archivesBona Dea, Camenae, Carmenta, Ceres, Dea Dia, Egeria, Flamens, Flora, Fortuna, Juno, Jupiter, Lares, Lupercus, Mars, Mercury, Minerva, Pales, Pomona, Quirinus, Roman mythology, Venus, Vesta, Vulcan

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