sere
sir
- s (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture
the desert was edged with sere vegetation
- The settlers could not coax out water for the farm from the sere wasteland.
- After a rain drenched march through humid and leech infested jungles, the battalion was transported to a soft and sere environment.
- The movie was filled with contrasts, as in one sequence, a disconsolate hero wanders through a sere, light-washed landscape while threshers fill the air with a blizzard of pale yellow grain.