SERE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sere mean? 

• SERE (adjective)
  The adjective SERE has 1 sense:

1. (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture

  Familiarity information: SERE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SERE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture

Synonyms:

dried-up; sear; sere; shriveled; shrivelled; withered

Context example:

withered vines

Similar:

dry (free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet)

Domain category:

botany; flora; vegetation (all the plant life in a particular region or period)

Derivation:

sereness (a withered dryness)

 Context examples 

Grasshoppers skipped briskly in the sere grass, and crickets chirped like fairy pipers at a feast.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Leaning over the battlements and looking far down, I surveyed the grounds laid out like a map: the bright and velvet lawn closely girdling the grey base of the mansion; the field, wide as a park, dotted with its ancient timber; the wood, dun and sere, divided by a path visibly overgrown, greener with moss than the trees were with foliage; the church at the gates, the road, the tranquil hills, all reposing in the autumn day's sun; the horizon bounded by a propitious sky, azure, marbled with pearly white.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)