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# cere

«cere» in Mova's school dictionary: **The soft, waxy, often brightly coloured patch of skin at…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a cere, ceres)

### meaning for a pupil

The soft, waxy, often brightly coloured patch of skin at the top of a bird's beak, around the nostrils, found in birds such as parrots, budgies, hawks and pigeons. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cere/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons and pet care, the colour of a budgie's cere can show whether it is male (often blue) or female (often brown or pale). Phrases: "the cere of a budgie".

### examples

- The budgie's blue cere shows it is a male. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cere/#x1)
- Hawks have a yellow cere above the beak. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cere/#x2)
- The vet checked the parrot's cere. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cere/#x3)
- A female budgie's cere is often brown. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cere/#x4)
- The cere has the bird's nostrils in it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cere/#x5)

### note

Pronounced like "seer". Do not confuse with "sear" (to burn) or "Ceres" (a dwarf planet and a Roman goddess). Countable: ceres.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cere» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cere/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.