Sere

Definitions

1. A proposed language family of Ubangian languages spoken in South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
2. 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.
3. A claw, a talon.
   obsolete
4. Acronym of survival, evasion, resistance, and escape (“training to prepare Western forces to survive when evading or captured”).
   abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“We examined one of several seres found in the middle Rocky Mountains that progress⟳ from a subalpine or montane forb-dominated meadow to a climax forest dominated by Engelmann spruce (Picea engelmannii).”

“[C]ommunity types may represent⟳ either climax plant⟳ associations or successional communities within a sere.”

“[S]ome communities persisted as repeating early successional seres ("disclimaxes"), while climax communities could contain⟳ small areas of different sere communities.”

“Her [Minerva's] seres struck through Achilles' tent, and closely she instill'd / Heaven's most-to-be-desired feast to his great breast, and fill'd / His sinews with that sweet supply⟳, for fear unsavoury fast / Should creep⟳ into his knees.”

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