Sere vs Xeric - What's the difference?
sere | xeric |
Without moisture.
* 1798 , (Samuel Taylor Coleridge), (The Rime of the Ancient Mariner) ,
* 1868 , (Henry Lonsdale), The Worthies of Cumberland , volume concerning Sir J. R. G. Graham, chapter 1,
* 1984 , (Vernor Vinge), (The Peace War) , chapter 37:
An intermediate stage in an ecosystem prior to advancing to the point of being a climax community.
Said of an environment or habitat that is extremely dry, lacking humidity and water.
Said of an organism adapted to live in a very dry habitat.
English collateral adjectives
As adjectives the difference between sere and xeric
is that sere is without moisture while xeric is said of an environment or habitat that is extremely dry, lacking humidity and water.As a noun sere
is an intermediate stage in an ecosystem prior to advancing to the point of being a climax community.sere
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Adjective
(er)part 5:
- The roaring wind! it roar'd far off,
It did not come anear;
But with its sound it shook the sails
That were so thin and sere .
page 1:
- …whilst the recitation of Border Minstrelsy, or a well-sung ballad, served to revive the sere and yellow leaf of age by their refreshing memories of the pleasurable past.
- The grass was sere and golden, the dirt beneath white and gravelly.