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seral

seral adjective: being dried or withered.

Adjective (1)

seral (not comparable)

  1. Being dried or withered.

Adjective (2)

seral (comparative more seral, superlative most seral)

  1. Of or pertaining to a sere.
    1. Tending to exist (in a given site) mainly in a particular, temporary phase of ecological succession, and to later be surpassed by something else (which is climax).
      • Lodgepole pine is a good example. On poor sites such as the obsidian sands of Yellowstone Park it is climax. On nearby zonal soils it is seral to subalpine fir.1979, Proceedings of the ... Convention of the Society of American Foresters, page 160
      • If the dominant species exhibit a reverse J-shape age or size frequency curve, one may perhaps conclude that the area is climax, whereas if the curve is bell-shaped the species if probably not replacing itself and may be seral (Figure 15.3).1987, J. P. Kimmins, Forest Ecology, page 392

seral meaning in Tamil

seral in Tamil

மரபு வழி

Forms of seral

comparativemore seral
superlativemost seral

Origin of seral

From sere + -al.

Questions about seral

What does seral mean?
Seral means being dried or withered.
What is seral in Tamil?
Seral in Tamil is மரபு வழி. See Seral meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is seral?
Seral is an adjective.

Words near seral in the dictionary

  1. Seraiki
  2. serail
  3. serails
  4. Seraing
  5. serais
  6. seral
  7. seralbumen
  8. seralbumin
  9. Seraliveh
  10. Seram
  11. Seram boobook

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Adapted from Wiktionary: seral (page history and authors); seral (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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