sere

also sear (sîr)
adj.
Withered; dry: sere vegetation at the edge of the desert.

[Middle English, from Old English sēar.]

sere² (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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adjective

Having little or no liquid or moisture: anhydrous, arid, bone-dry, dry, moistureless, waterless. See dry/wet.

A particular and easily recognized stage of an ecological succession; thus a primary stage is a prisere, a hydrosere develops in water, a psammosere on a sand dune, and a xerosere in an arid location. These seres will be moderated by succession. If a plant community is interfered with, perhaps by felling or burning, the resulting secondary stage is known as a sub-sere.

IN BRIEF: Bone-dry, arid; withered.

Death have we hated, knowing not what it meant; Life we have loved, through green leaf and through sere, Though still the less we knew of its intent. — William Morris (1834-1896), English poet, from The Earthly Paradise.

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Dansk (Danish)
1.
adj. - vissen, visnet, indtørret

2.
n. - sukcessionsserie, udviklingsrække

Nederlands (Dutch)
opgedroogd

Français (French)
1.
adj. - flétri, desséché, fané

2.
n. - séries, séquences, successions

Deutsch (German)
1.
adj. - trocken, verdorrt

2.
n. - Sukzessionsfolge

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (οικολ.) σειρά
adj. - ξεραμένος
v. - καψαλίζω, καυτηριάζω, ξεραίνω

Italiano (Italian)
sere, appassito

Português (Portuguese)
n. - descanso do cão do revolver (m)

Русский (Russian)
увядший, сухой, осень, старость

Español (Spanish)
1.
adj. - seco, marchito

2.
n. - quemadura, socarra, chamusquina, seco, marchito, serie de etapas en la sucesión ecológica

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - förtorkat löv
adj. - förtorkad, vissen, kraftlös
v. - vissna, bli kraftlös

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
1. 干枯的, 枯萎的

2. 演替系列

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
1.
n. - 演替系列

2.
adj. - 乾枯的, 枯萎的

한국어 (Korean)
1.
adj. - 말라빠진, 시든, 마른

2.
n. - 천이 계열

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 遷移系列, 逆鉤, 掛け金

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) تعاقب ألمجتمعات ألحيواني أو ألنباتيه (صفه) ذابل (فعل) يحرق الوجه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮יבש, נבול‬
n. - ‮יבש, נבול, הרצף השלם של קהילות חי וצומח המחזיקות בהצלחה בשטח מהשלב הראשון עד לשיא‬

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