What does sere mean?

Definitions for sere
sɪərsere

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. dried-up, sere, sear, shriveled, shrivelled, witheredadjective

    (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"

Wiktionary

  1. serenoun

    An intermediate stage in an ecosystem prior to advancing to the point of being a climax community.

  2. sereadjective

    Without moisture.

    1867 CE: Henry Lonsdale, The worthies of Cumberland

  3. Etymology: From seer, from sear.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Sereadjective

    Dry; withered; no longer green. See Sear.

    Etymology: searian , Saxon, to dry.

    The muses, that were wont green bays to wear,
    Now bringen bitter elder-branches sere. Edmund Spenser.

    He is deformed, crooked, old, and sere,
    Ill-fac’d, worse bodied, shapeless every where;
    Vicious, ungentle. William Shakespeare, Comedy of Errours.

    Ere this diurnal star
    Leave cold the night, how we his gather’d beams
    Reflected, may with matter sere foment. John Milton.

    They sere wood from the rotten hedges took,
    And seeds of latent fire from flints provoke. Dryden.

    On a sere branch,
    Low bending to the bank, I sat me down,
    Musing and still. Nicholas Rowe, Royal Convert.

  2. Serenoun

    Claw; talon.

    Etymology: Can it come, like sheers, from scyran , Saxon, to cut?

    Two eagles,
    That, mounted on the winds, together still
    Their strokes extended; but arriving now
    Amidst the council, over every brow
    Shook their thick wings, and threatning death’s cold fears,
    Their necks and cheeks tore with their eager seres. George Chapman.

ChatGPT

  1. sere

    A sere is a stage in the ecological succession of a plant community advancing towards its climax community, a relatively stable and final stage. It includes all the changes in species composition and community structure that occur over time during succession.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Sereadjective

    [OE. seer, AS. sear (assumed) fr. searian to wither; akin to D. zoor dry, LG. soor, OHG. sor/n to to wither, Gr. a"y`ein to parch, to dry, Skr. /ush (for sush) to dry, to wither, Zend hush to dry. Ã152. Cf. Austere, Sorrel, a.] Dry; withered; no longer green; -- applied to leaves.

  2. Sereadjective

    dry; withered. Same as Sear

  3. Serenoun

    claw; talon

  4. Etymology: [OE. seer, AS. ser (assumed) fr. serian to wither; akin to D. zoor dry, LG. soor, OHG. sorn to wither, Gr. a"y`ein to parch, to dry, Skr. ush (for sush) to dry, to wither, Zend hush to dry. 152. Cf. Austere, Sorrel, a.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Sere

    Same as Sear.

  2. Sere

    sēr, adj. (obs.) separate, several, many.

  3. Sere

    sēr, n. (obs.) a claw.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of sere in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of sere in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of sere in a Sentence

  1. Benjamin Johnson:

    It is not growing like a tree in bulk doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere, A lily of a day is fairer in May Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant of flower and light, In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.

  2. Benjamin Johnson:

    It is not growing like a tree in bulk doth make man better be Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere, A lily of a day is fairer in May Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant of flower and light, In small proportions we just beauties see And in short measures, life may perfect be.

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