sere Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture
    withered; sear; shriveled; shrivelled; dried-up.
    • dried-up grass
    • the desert was edged with sere vegetation
    • shriveled leaves on the unwatered seedlings
    • withered vines

WordNet

Sere adjective
Definitions
  1. Dry; withered. Same as Sear.
    But with its sound it shook the sails That were so thin and sere. Coleridge.
Sere noun
Etymology
F. serre.
Definitions
  1. Claw; talon. Obs. Chapman.

Webster 1913