he recitation of Border Minstrelsy, or a well-sung ballad, served to revive the sere and yellow leaf of age by their refreshing memories of the pleasurable past.
Withered; dry: sere vegetation at the edge of the desert. The entire sequence of ecological communities successively occupying an area from the initial stage to the climax
A developmental series of communities a chain of seral stages containing the initial (pioneer), one or more transitional stages, and a single (often hypothetical) climax stage
(used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture; "dried-up grass"; "the desert was edged with sere vegetation"; "shriveled leaves on the unwatered seedlings"; "withered vines"
The product of succession: the entire sequence of plant communities that successively occupy and replace one another in a particular environment over time
the series of communities that follow one another in a natural succession, as in the change from a bare field to a mature forest