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sere 1
also sear (sîr)adj.
Withered; dry: sere vegetation at the edge of the desert.
[Middle English, from Old English sēar.]
sere 2
(sîr)n.
The entire sequence of ecological communities successively occupying an area from the initial stage to the climax.
[From series.]
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sere
(sɪə) orsear
adj
archaic dried up or withered
vb, n
a rare spelling of sear11
[Old English sēar; see sear1]
sere
(sɪə)n
(Environmental Science) the series of changes occurring in the ecological succession of a particular community
[C20: from series]
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sere1
(sɪər)adj.
dry; withered.
[before 900; Old English sēar, c. Middle Low German sōr]
sere2
(sɪər)n.
a stage in an ecological succession of plant communities.
[1915–20; extracted from series, or < Latin serere to join in a series]
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sere
Past participle: sered
Gerund: sering
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Adj. | 1. | sere - (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture; "dried-up grass"; "the desert was edged with sere vegetation"; "shriveled leaves on the unwatered seedlings"; "withered vines" botany, flora, vegetation - all the plant life in a particular region or period; "Pleistocene vegetation"; "the flora of southern California"; "the botany of China" dry - free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet; "dry land"; "dry clothes"; "a dry climate"; "dry splintery boards"; "a dry river bed"; "the paint is dry" |
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