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seres

seres is the plural of sere.

Meaning of sere

Noun (1)

sere (plural seres)

  1. A natural succession community of organisms in an ecosystem, especially a series of communities succeeding one another from a time when habitat is unoccupied or disturbed to the time when a climax community is achieved.
    • 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).1980 August, Douglas C. Andersen, James A. MacMahon, Michael L. Wolfe, “Herbivorous Mammals along a Montane Sere: Community Structure and Energetics”, in Journal of Mammology, volume 61, number 3...
    Synonyms:
    seral community

Noun (2)

sere (plural seres)

  1. (obsolete) A claw, a talon.
    • 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.[1611?], Homer, “Book XIX”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new...

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Proper noun (1) capitalized: Seres

Seres

  1. (archaic, collective, historical, uncountable) Synonym of Chinese or Northern Chinese, chiefly in the context of ancient Greco-Roman knowledge of China.
    Synonyms:
    Chinese or Northern Chinese, chiefly in the context of ancient Greco-Roman knowledge of China

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Seres

Seres

  1. A surname.

Synonyms of seres

  • Chinese or Northern Chinese
  • chiefly in the context of ancient Greco-Roman knowledge of China

Origin of seres

From Latin Sērēs, from Ancient Greek Σῆρες (Sêres, “the North Chinese; North China”), from σήρ (sḗr, “silkworm”), possibly from Old Chinese 絲 (*sə, “silk”).

Words formed from seres

Questions about seres

What does seres mean?
Seres means synonym of Chinese or Northern Chinese, chiefly in the context of ancient Greco-Roman knowledge of China.
What is seres the plural of?
Seres is the plural of sere.
What part of speech is seres?
Seres is a proper noun.

Words near seres in the dictionary

  1. Sereno
  2. Sereno del Mar
  3. Serenos
  4. serer
  5. Serers
  6. seres
  7. serest
  8. seretonergic
  9. serf
  10. serfage
  11. serfages

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