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Encyclopedia > Ceres
Look up Ceres in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

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Ceres commonly refers to either: Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ...

  • Ceres (dwarf planet), smallest of the three dwarf planets, originally classified as a planet, and later as the largest and first discovered asteroid.
  • Ceres (mythology), the Roman goddess of agriculture.


Ceres may also refer to: Spectral type: G[8] Absolute magnitude: 3. ... In Roman mythology, Ceres was the goddess of growing plants (particularly cereals) and of motherly love. ...


Places

United States

Ceres is a city located in Stanislaus County, California. ... Genesee is a town in Allegany County, New York, United States. ...

Other countries

Ceres is a suburb of Geelong, Victoria, Australia. ... Ceres is a municipality in central Goiás state, Brazil. ... Country Italy Region Piedmont Province Province of Turin (TO) Mayor  ? Elevation m Area 27. ... Ceres is a village in Fife, Scotland. ... Ceres is a town in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. ...

Businesses

  • Ceres Brewery, a brewery in Aarhus, Denmark
  • Ceres Hellenic Shipping Enterprises, a Greek shipping company
  • Ceres (organization), a coalition of investors and environmentalists (formerly the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies)
  • Ceres Fruit Juices, the South African juice company
  • Ceres, Inc., the developer of energy crops
  • Ceres, agricultural software in Belgium
  • Ceres (세레스), a light truck produced by Kia Motors in the 1980s and 1990s.

The Ceres Brewery is a brewery located in Aarhus, Denmark. ... Ceres Hellenic Enterprises is a large traditional Greek ship management company based in Piraeus. ... Ceres (pronounced series) is a U.S.-wide network of investors, environmental organizations and other public interest groups working with companies and investors to address sustainability challenges such as global climate change. ... Kia Motors Company (hangul: 기아자동차) is a South Korean automobile manufacturer with headquarters in Yangjae-dong, Seocho-gu, Seoul, South Korea. ...

In fiction

  • Ceres, Celestial Legend (Ayashi no Ceres), an anime/manga work. The main character Aya is descended from a celestial Goddess named Ceres.
  • In the anime TV series Sailor Moon there is a character called CereCere, derived from Ceres along with PallaPalla, JunJun and VesVes derived from the respective asteroids. In the manga they are later known as the Sailor Quartet who are one of the various groups of the Sailor Senshi
  • In the Super Nintendo game Super Metroid (1994), the Ceres Space Colony is where Samus Aran takes the last surviving Metroid hatchling from SR-388.
  • Seras Victoria, a character in the anime/manga Hellsing, of which an alternate romanization is "Ceres"

Ceres, Celestial Legend ), is a 14-volume shōjo manga series by Yū Watase, the creator of the popular manga/anime series Fushigi Yūgi and Alice 19th. ... Sailor Moon , officially translated as Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon) is the title of a famous media franchise created by Japanese manga artist Naoko Takeuchi. ... The Amazoness Quartet (more properly but less commonly Amazones Quartetto) is a set of villains from the anime Sailor Moon SuperS and the Sailor Moon manga: CereCere, PallaPalla, JunJun and VesVes. ... The Amazoness Quartet is a set of villains from the anime Sailor Moon SuperS and the Sailor Moon manga: CereCere, PallaPalla, JunJun and VesVes. ... The Amazoness Quartet is a set of villains from the anime Sailor Moon SuperS and the Sailor Moon manga: CereCere, PallaPalla, JunJun and VesVes. ... The Amazoness Quartet is a set of villains from the anime Sailor Moon SuperS and the Sailor Moon manga: CereCere, PallaPalla, JunJun and VesVes. ... The Sailor Team and Chibichibi. ... The Super Nintendo Entertainment System, also known as Super Nintendo, Super NES or SNES, is a 16-bit video game console released by Nintendo in North America, Brazil, Europe, and Australia. ... Super Metroid ) is an adventure video game developed by Nintendo R&D1 and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System video game console. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ... This article is about various areas in the Metroid series. ... Samus Aran ), is the fictional protagonist of the Metroid video game series. ... Metroids are a fictional species of parasitic alien creatures from the Metroid video game series created by Nintendo. ... A picture of SR388 from Metroid Fusion. ... Seras Victoria ) is a fictional character from both the Hellsing anime series and manga series by Kouta Hirano. ...

Other uses

  • the plural of cere, a structure at the base of some bird's beaks.
  • Ceres (workstation), a computer workstation
  • Ceres series, a series of postage stamps representing the goddess Ceres
  • HMS Ceres, three ships of the British Royal Navy
  • Ceres, a West Cornwall Railway steam locomotive

A cere is a fleshy, often waxy area above a birds beak. ... In philately, Ceres, goddess of growing plants, was used on postal stamp series : Ceres series (France) Ceres series (Portugal) Category: Postage stamps ... Three ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Ceres, after the goddess Ceres of Roman mythology. ... Was a former Railway Company operating in West Cornwall, UK. The company was formed in 1844 to opererate the existing service between the towns of Hayle and Redruth and the extend the railway line as far as Penzance. ...

Acronyms

The CERES Community Environment Park, or Centre for Education and Research in Environmental Strategies, is an award-winning community environment park located in urban Brunswick East, Victoria, Australia. ... Clouds and the Earths Radiant Energy System (CERES) is an on-going NASA metereological experiment in Earth orbit. ...

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