serotine

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See also: sérotine

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Etymology 1

a serotine bat (Eptesicus serotinus).

Borrowed from French sérotine, from Latin sērōtina, a feminine form of sērōtinus (“late (in ripening, etc.); relating to the evening”) (referring to the bats being active late in the evening), from sērō (“at a late hour; too late”, adverb) (from sērus (“late, too late; slow, tardy”, adjective); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“lasting; long”)) + -tinus (suffix forming adjectives from adverbs relating to time).

Noun

serotine (plural serotines)

  1. Any of several small bats of the genus Eptesicus.
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Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin sērōtinus (“late (in ripening, etc.); relating to the evening”): see etymology 1.

Adjective

serotine (comparative more serotine, superlative most serotine)

  1. (biology) Developing at a later time or later in a season, especially than is customary with allied species; specifically (botany), of a plant: flowering late in a season.
    Synonyms: serotinal, serotinous
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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 “serotine, adj. and n.”, in Collins English Dictionary.
  2. ^ “serotine, n.1”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, July 2023; “serotine, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  3. ^ “serotine, adj. (and n.2)”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, July 2023.

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Italian

Adjective

serotine

  1. feminine plural of serotino

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Latin

Adjective

sērōtine

  1. vocative masculine singular of sērōtinus
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