CERACEOUS

PRONUNCIATION: (suh-RAY-shuhs)

MEANING: adjective: Waxy.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin cera (wax) + -aceous (resembling or relating to). Earliest documented use: 1768.
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ACERACEOUS - sharp, barbed

CELACEOUS - titillating, suggestive

CERVACEOUS - beery

[not to mention the homophone "Serratious" - pertaining to a bacterium of the genus Serratia]