Sere (Adjective)
Meaning
(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".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- The once-lush landscape was reduced to sere fields and barren hillsides after months without rain.
- The park ranger had to replace the sere plants with fresh ones, which would hopefully thrive in the dry climate.
- As the seasons changed, the sere leaves crunched beneath the feet of hikers on the mountain trail.
- Years of drought had transformed the green forest into a sea of sere trees, gray and lifeless.
- Travelers who ventured into the desert often marveled at the resilience of the sere, spiky plants that somehow managed to survive.