sere

Meanings

Plural: seres

Adjective Satellite

(used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture
- "the desert was edged with sere vegetation"

Adj

Without moisture; dry.
Of thoughts, etc.: barren, fruitless.
Of fabrics: threadbare, worn out.
Individual, separate, set apart.
Different; diverse.

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.
A claw, a talon.

Origin / 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 соухъ (suχŭ, “dry”). Doublet of sear and sare.

Synonyms

anhydrous, arid, bone dry, dried-up, droughty, dry, dry as a bone, exsuccous, parched, sare, sear, seral community, sere, shriveled, shrivelled, unmoist, waterless, withered

Scrabble Score: 4

sere is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
sere is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
sere is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 4

sere is a valid Words With Friends word