sere

sere¹ also sear (sîr)

adj.

Withered; dry: sere vegetation at the edge of the desert.

[Middle English, from Old English sar.]

sere² (sîr)

The entire sequence of ecological communities successively occupying an area from the initial stage to the climax.

[From series.]

sere¹, sear [sɪə]

adj

Archaic dried up or withered

vb & n

a rare spelling of sear [1]

[Old English sēar; see sear¹]

sere²

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Environmental Science) the series of changes occurring in the ecological succession of a particular community

[from series]

sere (sîr)

The entire sequence of ecological communities successively occupying an area from the initial stage to the climax community. See more at succession.

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Adj.

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"

dried-up, sear, shriveled, shrivelled, withered

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"

Translations

sere [sɪəʳ] ADJ → seco, marchito

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cere dried-up hydrosere mesarch nightly prisere Revisable revise revised reviser revising sear Seared searing seral Serer shriveled shrivelled subsere	The skies they were ashen and sober; The leaves they were crisped and sere -- The leaves they were withering and sere; It was night in the lonesome October Of my most immemorial year: It was hard by the dim lake of Auber, In the misty mid region of Weir: -- It was down by the dank tarn of Auber, In the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir. Poems by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context On every side of me stretched a bleak and desolate expanse of plain, covered with a tall overgrowth of sere grass, which rustled and whistled in the autumn wind with heaven knows what mysterious and disquieting suggestion. Can Such Things Be? by Bierce, Ambrose View in context Hester gazed after him a little while, looking with a half fantastic curiosity to see whether the tender grass of early spring would not be blighted beneath him and show the wavering track of his footsteps, sere and brown, across its cheerful verdure. The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context	Serang serape seraph Seraph moth seraphic seraphical seraphicism Seraphim Seraphina Seraphine seraphism Serapis Seraskier Seraskierate Serax Serb Serbia Serbia and Montenegro Serbian Serbo-Croat Serbo-Croatian Serbonian Sercq serdab Serdica sere serein Seremban serenade Serenader serenata serendipitous serendipity serene serenely Sereneness sereness Serengeti Serengeti National Park Serengeti Plain Serenitude serenity Serenoa Serenoa repens Serer serf Serfage serfdom Serfhood serfism serflike	SERD SERDA serdab serdab Serdalo SERDAT SERDEF SERDEP SerDes SerDes SerDes Framer Interface SERDI Serdica Serdica Serditoe Serdiuk, Aleksandr Serdiuk, Aleksandr Ivanovich Serdiuki Serdiukov, Anatolii Serdiukov, Anatolii Ivanovich Serdiukov, Mikhail Serdiukov, Mikhail Ivanovich Serdobsk SERDP SERDP Ecosystem Management Project SERDP Exploratory Development SERDS sere SEREAD SEREB SEREBAR Serebii's Pokemon Palace Forums Serebreniki Serebrennikov, Boris Serebrennikov, Boris Aleksandrovich Sérébriakoff Serebriakov, Pavel Serebriakov, Pavel Alekseevich Serebriakova Serebriakova, Galina Serebriakova, Galina Iosifovna Serebriakova, Zinaida Serebriakova, Zinaida Evgenevna Serebrianka Serebrianka Reservoir Serebriansk Serebrianye Prudy Serebrianyi, Iosif Serebrianyi, Iosif Aleksandrovich Serebrospinaalvog Serebrovskii Serebrovskii, Aleksandr

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cere
dried-up
hydrosere
mesarch
nightly
prisere
Revisable
revise
revised
reviser
revising
sear
Seared
searing
seral
Serer
shriveled
shrivelled
subsere

The skies they were ashen and sober; The leaves they were crisped and sere -- The leaves they were withering and sere; It was night in the lonesome October Of my most immemorial year: It was hard by the dim lake of Auber, In the misty mid region of Weir: -- It was down by the dank tarn of Auber, In the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir.

Poems by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context

On every side of me stretched a bleak and desolate expanse of plain, covered with a tall overgrowth of sere grass, which rustled and whistled in the autumn wind with heaven knows what mysterious and disquieting suggestion.

Can Such Things Be? by Bierce, Ambrose View in context

Hester gazed after him a little while, looking with a half fantastic curiosity to see whether the tender grass of early spring would not be blighted beneath him and show the wavering track of his footsteps, sere and brown, across its cheerful verdure.

The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context

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