sere

Meaning

Adj

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

Noun

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.

Noun

A claw, a talon.

Synonyms

sear

withered

shriveled

faded

arid

dried-up

dry

shrivelled

wizened

droughty

terse

wilted

cachectic

wizen

succession spectrum

seared

languishing

Pronounced as (IPA)

/sɪə/

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 (aûos, “dry”), Lithuanian sausas (“dry”), Middle Low German sôr (Low German soor (“arid, dry”)), Old Church Slavonic suχŭ (“dry”). Doublet of sear and sare.