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Sear Sere Seer Adjective Dry Withered Variant Spelling

Front sere, also sear \SEER\
Back adjective
Dry; withered.

[Variant spelling of Old English sear (dry). Earliest documented use: 824.]

"The duration of an organism's presence in a sere depends on its ability to persist, even as the environment is changing." - Lawrence Walker; The Biology of Disturbed Habitats; Oxford University Press; 2012.

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