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Etymology

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Latin cera (wax).

Noun

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cerosin (uncountable)

  1. (organic chemistry) A waxy substance obtained from the bark of the sugar cane.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for cerosin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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