SERE

sere, dried-up, sear, shriveled, shrivelled, withered

(adjective) (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”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology 1

Adjective

sere (comparative serer, superlative serest)

(archaic or literary, poetic) Without moisture; dry.

Synonyms: sare (Britain, archaic), sear, Thesaurus:dry

(obsolete) Of fabrics: threadbare, worn out.

Etymology 2

Noun

sere (plural seres)

(ecology) A natural succession of animal or plant communities in an ecosystem, especially a series of communities succeeding one another from the time a habitat is unoccupied to the point when a climax community is achieved. [from early 20th c.]

Synonym: seral community

Hyponyms

• hydrosere

• lithosere

• psammosere

Etymology 3

Noun

sere (plural seres)

(obsolete) A claw, a talon.

Etymology 4

Adjective

sere (comparative more sere, superlative most sere)

(obsolete or Britain, dialectal) Individual, separate, set apart.

(obsolete or Britain, dialectal) Different; diverse.

Anagrams

• EERs, Erse, REEs, Rees, SEER, eres, rees, rese, seer

Etymology

An acronym of the main topics, survival, evasion, resistance, and escape.

Noun

SERE (uncountable)

(military) A training program in the United States military to train personnel in survival, evasion, resistance, and escape, preparatory for potential capture by enemy forces.

Anagrams

• EERs, Erse, REEs, Rees, SEER, eres, rees, rese, seer

Source: Wiktionary

Sear, Sere, a.

Definition: [OE. seer, AS. seár (assumed) fr. seárian to wither; akin to D. zoor dry, LG. soor, OHG. soren to to wither, Gr. sush) to dry, to wither, Zend hush to dry. sq. root152. Cf. Austere, Sorrel, a.] Dry; withered; no longer green; -- applied to leaves. Milton. I have lived long enough; my way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf. Shak.

Sere, a.

Definition: Dry; withered. Same as Sear. But with its sound it shook the sails That were so thin and sere. Coleridge.

Sere, n. Etym: [F. serre.]

Definition: Claw; talon. [Obs.] Chapman.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition