sere

adjective5

1. •
   (literary, no longer used) Without moisture; dry.

   • The autumn winds rushing / Waft the leaves that are searest, / But our flower was in flushing, / When blighting was nearest. — 1810
2. •
   (literary, no longer used) Of thoughts, etc.: barren, fruitless.

   • Our talk had been serious and sober, But our thoughts they were palsied and sere— Our memories were treacherous and sere— — 1847
3. •
   (no longer used) Of fabrics: threadbare, worn out.

   • 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. — 1797
4. •
   (dialect, no longer used) Individual, separate, set apart.
5. •
   (dialect, no longer used) Different; diverse.

noun2

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.

   • [C]ommunity types may represent either climax plant associations or successional communities within a sere. — 1988
2. •
   (no longer used) A claw, a talon.

noun1

1. •
   Acronym of survival, evasion, resistance, and escape (“training to prepare Western forces to survive when evading or captured”).