Seriate is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.
You can make 240 anagrams from letters in seriate (aeeirst).
1840-50; Latin seri(ēs) series + -ate1
When the nest is new, I think I see a reason why the Mason-bee should seriate her laying into females and then males.
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