Cerean

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Adjective

Cerean (not comparable)

  1. pertaining to Ceres
    • 1892, Charles Leland, Etruscan Roman Remains, published 2007, page 233:
      Pata'na was a Roman goddess who appears with greatly varied names, sometimes as a derivation from Ceres or a Cerean deity, and sometimes as Ceres herself.
    • 1994, Hayford Peirce, “Six Million Solid Gold Belter Buckles”, in Jonathan White: Stockbroker in Orbit, Wildside Press, published 2001, →ISBN, page 45:
      Bouncing is something to be avoided in the low Cerean gravity: any bouncing here would have lifted me up against the café's green and white striped awning — and maybe on through it to interface violently with the 60 meters of carbonaceous chondrite rock that separate Clarkeville from the surface.
    • 2012, Joop M. Houtkooper, Life on Earth and other Planetary Bodies, →ISBN, page 168:
      If so, a commonality of Cerean life with Terran and possible Martian life ... could provide a strong corroboration of the "Ceres origin" hypothesis.

Noun

Cerean (plural Cereans)

  1. A native or inhabitant of Ceres
    • 1953, Isaac Asimov, Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids:
      "When they left, the men of Ceres counted their casualties. Fifteen Cereans were dead and many more hurt in one way or another, as against the bodies of five pirates."
    • 1988, Everett Franklin Bleiler, Science-fiction: the Gernsback years, Kent State University Press, page 374:
      "Traveling by etheric-magnetic means, the comrades soon reached Ceres, where they find a couple of corpses, but no living Cereans."

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