Ceroma: Definition and part of speech

Ceroma

  1. n. The cere of birds.
  2. n. The unguent (a composition of oil and wax) with which wrestlers were anointed among the ancient Romans.
  3. n. That part of the baths and gymnasia in which bathers and wrestlers anointed themselves.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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