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ceroon

ceroon noun: a bale or package, covered or bound with hide, formerly used in Central America.

Noun

ceroon (plural ceroons)

  1. (archaic) A bale or package, covered or bound with hide, formerly used in Central America.
    • a ceroon of indigo, cochineal, etc.
    • Troops of pack animals constantly passed us, laden with enormous hide ceroons, filled with grain. The scene was pastoral.c. 1850, Theodore Winthrop, Isthmiana

Forms of ceroon

pluralceroons

Origin of ceroon

From Spanish serón (“a kind of hamper or pannier”).

Questions about ceroon

What does ceroon mean?
Ceroon means a bale or package, covered or bound with hide, formerly used in Central America.
What part of speech is ceroon?
Ceroon is a noun.
What is the plural of ceroon?
The plural of ceroon is ceroons.

Words near ceroon in the dictionary

  1. ceromata
  2. Ceron
  3. Cerone
  4. Cerones
  5. Cerons
  6. ceroon
  7. ceroons
  8. cerophytid
  9. cerophytids
  10. ceroplastic
  11. ceroplastic acid

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