sere

Meanings

1. Without moisture; dry.
2. Of thoughts, etc.: barren, fruitless.
3. Of fabrics: threadbare, worn out.

1. 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.

1. A claw, a talon.

1. Individual, separate, set apart.
2. Different; diverse.

1. Acronym of survival, evasion, resistance, and escape (“training to prepare Western forces to survive when evading or captured”).

1. A proposed language family of Ubangian languages spoken in South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Etymology

From Middle English ser, sere, seare, seer, seere, seir, seyr (“dry, withered; emaciated, shrivelled; brittle; bare; dead, lifeless; barren, useless”), from Old English sēar, sīere (“dry, withered; barren; sere”), from Proto-West Germanic *sauʀ(ī), from Proto-Germanic *sauzaz (“dry, parched”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂sews-, *sh₂ews- (“to be dry”). Cognate with Dutch zoor (“dry and coarse”), Greek αὖος (av́os, “dry”), Lithuanian sausas (“dry”), Middle Low German sôr (Low German soor (“arid, dry”)), Old Church Slavonic соухъ (suχŭ, “dry”). Doublet of sear and sare.