Meaning & use
Seral
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Relating to an ecological sere, a series of stages in the succession of a plant or animal community over time.
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The seral stages of the abandoned field progressed from grasses to shrubs to young forest.
Ecologists mapped the seral communities that developed after the wildfire.
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Derived from 'sere,' itself shortened from 'series'; a key term in the study of ecological succession.
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