Definition of "cere" []

• To wrap in or as if in cerecloth. (verb-transitive)
• A fleshy or waxlike membrane at the base of the upper beak in certain birds, such as parrots, through which the nostrils open. (noun)

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• "CPW also markets cereal bars in able to offset high levels of input cost inflation with a combination several European countries and manufactures private label cere - of pricing actions, sourcing productivity, and manufacturing als for customers in the United Kingdom."
• "For the betterment of all, they shouldered the burden of being the huntsmen and butchers, the judges and jailers, the hangmen and executioners, the grave-diggers and cere-clothiers."
• "There was a deep gash from the top of his beak, through the cere, and a nick in his eyelid, clearly from the same blow."