a. Obs. Also cerial, serriale. [a. OIt. cereale, f. cerro (cero) evergreen oak, L. cerrus Turkey or bitter oak; see -AL.] Of or pertaining to evergreen oak.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Knt.’s T., 1432. A coroune of a grene ook cerial [v.r. serial; Boccaccio Teseide, Corona di querzia cereale].
a. 1500. Flower & Leaf, xxx. Chapelets fresh of okes serrial, Newly sprong.
[a. 1700. Dryden, Flower & Leaf, 284. Branches … Of palm, of laurel, or of cerrial-oak.]
