cero-, cer-, kero-, keri-

Pertaining to something that is waxen; like wax; ceracious: The pollen masses produced by orchids are ceraceous due to the texture and color of new wax.

The eating of wax.

A drawing, design, or text incised that has been cut into a wax surface.

A reference to etchings or drawings made on wax surfaces: Cerographic, or glyphography, is a printmaking technique related to engraving, using a layer of wax over a metal surface and then after the image is engraved into the wax, a positive plate is produced with the stereotyping or electrotyping.

Referring to the art of making characters or designs in, or with, wax.