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adjective sɪəsir literary (especially of vegetation) dry or withered. 〈文〉（尤指植物）干枯的，枯萎的；凋谢了的 small green vineyards encircled by vast sear fields Example sentencesExamples - Climates and soils vary as dramatically as landscapes: mountains rear out of the sea, unfolding into lush valleys, sere drylands, and a series of inland mountain chains.
- Just beyond the southern boundary of the reserve lies Russia's republic of Tuva, a sere land of yaks and camels tended by seminomadic herders.
- But these seeds, collected over generations, were the germ of crops that were especially adapted to thrive in the sere, rocky croplands of Afghanistan.
- Twice divorced, he lives alone in an Italian-style estate near the sere hills of north Phoenix, where he is surrounded by citrus and pecan trees and paintings by Andy Warhol.
- I don't think we've had a real frost yet, though we've lagged delicate things such as the tree fern in readiness for the sere times to come.
- For two afternoons a week, for the two summer school terms, for four years, I was made to stand in the middle of a featureless paddock in the middle of this sere landscape, doing nothing except seething with a mixture of boredom and anger.
- The homunculus stares solemnly at my sere soil.
- Daily we drove over sere gulches our guide referred to as rivers.
- I roll down the dusty window to let the afternoon heat pour in and to better watch the sere coast fall away as I slowly angle up the rugged flank of Haleakala, eventually looping back to Kahului.
- The high pastureland was lush with grass, sere and tussocky now after the summer's heat, and it sort of rolled, building itself up in a series of slow waves into the foothills of the Sierras.
- But when he first arrived five years ago, the surrounding hills were as sere and brown as everywhere else.
- In Morocco, on a pinchpenny budget of $6 million, Scorsese recreated a Palestine of sere deserts and balding meadows.
- What solitary distances, what sere, remote escarpments, what unbounded, wide eternities they are where you reside, in which no creatures of your hand appear!
- The only green that remained was the spreading, tired, dark foliage of the occasional live oak tree standing sentinel in sere pastureland.
- Storm clouds pile up above the sere plain, and in the foreground, a granite marker is etched with a mountain range, two pines and the words ‘Traveling Wolf, born 1878, died 1961.’
OriginOld English sēar: see sear. Rhymesadhere, Agadir, Anglosphere, appear, arrear, auctioneer, austere, balladeer, bandolier, Bashkir, beer, besmear, bier, blear, bombardier, brigadier, buccaneer, cameleer, career, cashier, cavalier, chandelier, charioteer, cheer, chevalier, chiffonier, clavier, clear, Coetzee, cohere, commandeer, conventioneer, Cordelier, corsetière, Crimea, dear, deer, diarrhoea (US diarrhea), domineer, Dorothea, drear, ear, electioneer, emir, endear, engineer, fear, fleer, Freer, fusilier, gadgeteer, Galatea, gazetteer, gear, gondolier, gonorrhoea (US gonorrhea), Greer, grenadier, hand-rear, hear, here, Hosea, idea, interfere, Izmir, jeer, Judaea, Kashmir, Keir, kir, Korea, Lear, leer, Maria, marketeer, Medea, Meir, Melilla, mere, Mia, Mir, mishear, mountaineer, muleteer, musketeer, mutineer, near, orienteer, pamphleteer, panacea, paneer, peer, persevere, pier, Pierre, pioneer, pistoleer, privateer, profiteer, puppeteer, racketeer, ratafia, rear, revere, rhea, rocketeer, Sapir, scrutineer, sear, seer, severe, Shamir, shear, sheer, sincere, smear, sneer, sonneteer, souvenir, spear, sphere, steer, stere, summiteer, Tangier, tear, tier, Trier, Tyr, veer, veneer, Vere, Vermeer, vizier, volunteer, Wear, weir, we're, year, Zaïre noun sɪəsir Ecology A natural succession of plant (or animal) communities, especially a full series from uncolonized habitat to the appropriate climax vegetation. 〔生态〕演替系列。比较SUCCESSION Compare with succession Example sentencesExamples - On well-drained sites, shrub seres are rare and graminoid-forb mixtures are often replaced directly by northern hardwood tree species.
- Although herbivory tends to hasten succession from shrubs and pioneer trees to forest, it typically retards succession from earlier seres.
OriginEarly 20th century: from Latin serere 'join in a series'. adjectivesir literary (especially of vegetation) dry or withered. 〈文〉（尤指植物）干枯的，枯萎的；凋谢了的 small green vineyards encircled by vast sear fields Example sentencesExamples - Daily we drove over sere gulches our guide referred to as rivers.
- For two afternoons a week, for the two summer school terms, for four years, I was made to stand in the middle of a featureless paddock in the middle of this sere landscape, doing nothing except seething with a mixture of boredom and anger.
- The high pastureland was lush with grass, sere and tussocky now after the summer's heat, and it sort of rolled, building itself up in a series of slow waves into the foothills of the Sierras.
- I don't think we've had a real frost yet, though we've lagged delicate things such as the tree fern in readiness for the sere times to come.
- Twice divorced, he lives alone in an Italian-style estate near the sere hills of north Phoenix, where he is surrounded by citrus and pecan trees and paintings by Andy Warhol.
- In Morocco, on a pinchpenny budget of $6 million, Scorsese recreated a Palestine of sere deserts and balding meadows.
- The homunculus stares solemnly at my sere soil.
- Just beyond the southern boundary of the reserve lies Russia's republic of Tuva, a sere land of yaks and camels tended by seminomadic herders.
- The only green that remained was the spreading, tired, dark foliage of the occasional live oak tree standing sentinel in sere pastureland.
- Climates and soils vary as dramatically as landscapes: mountains rear out of the sea, unfolding into lush valleys, sere drylands, and a series of inland mountain chains.
- Storm clouds pile up above the sere plain, and in the foreground, a granite marker is etched with a mountain range, two pines and the words ‘Traveling Wolf, born 1878, died 1961.’
- But these seeds, collected over generations, were the germ of crops that were especially adapted to thrive in the sere, rocky croplands of Afghanistan.
- What solitary distances, what sere, remote escarpments, what unbounded, wide eternities they are where you reside, in which no creatures of your hand appear!
- I roll down the dusty window to let the afternoon heat pour in and to better watch the sere coast fall away as I slowly angle up the rugged flank of Haleakala, eventually looping back to Kahului.
- But when he first arrived five years ago, the surrounding hills were as sere and brown as everywhere else.
OriginOld English sēar: see sear. nounsir Ecology A natural succession of plant (or animal) communities, especially a full series from uncolonized habitat to the appropriate climax vegetation. 〔生态〕演替系列。比较SUCCESSION Compare with succession Example sentencesExamples - Although herbivory tends to hasten succession from shrubs and pioneer trees to forest, it typically retards succession from earlier seres.
- On well-drained sites, shrub seres are rare and graminoid-forb mixtures are often replaced directly by northern hardwood tree species.
OriginEarly 20th century: from Latin serere ‘join in a series’. |