资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Serial \Se"ri*al\, a.
   1. Of or pertaining to a series; consisting of a series;
      appearing in successive parts or numbers; as, a serial
      work or publication. ``Classification . . . may be more or
      less serial.'' --H. Spencer.

   2. (Bot.) Of or pertaining to rows. --Gray.

   {Serial homology}. (Biol.) See under {Homology}.

   {Serial symmetry}. (Biol.) See under {Symmetry}.