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Cerean
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Alternative forms
en Cererian
en Cererean
Adjective
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pertaining to Ceres
en 1892 2007 Charles Leland Etruscan Roman Remains 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.
en 1994 2001 Hayford Peirce Six Million Solid Gold Belter Buckles Jonathan White: Stockbroker in Orbit Wildside Press 1587153580 http://books.google.com/books?id=a26Nq5-qU8YC&pg=PA45&dq=Cerean 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.
en 2012 Joop M. Houtkooper Life on Earth and other Planetary Bodies If so, a commonality of Cerean life with Terran and possible Martian life ... could provide a strong corroboration of the "Ceres origin" hypothesis. 168 940074966X
Noun
A native or inhabitant of Ceres
en 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."
en 1988 Everett Franklin Bleiler Science-fiction: the Gernsback years Kent State University Press 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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en aceenr careen carene crenae enrace recane
en Celestial inhabitants