a. [f. (in sense 1) CERE, or (in sense 2) L. cēr-a + -AL.]

1

  1.  Pertaining to the CERE of a bird’s bill.

2

1874.  Coues, Birds N.-W., 605. Ceral longer than the ungual portion of the bill.

3

  2.  Relating to wax.

4

1883.  S. Wainwright, Sci. Sophisms, ix. 181. Had Mr. Darwin lived two thousand years ago, his ceral experiments might have furnished a target for the shafts of Aristophanes.

5