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sere

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1. sere - Noun

2. sere - Adjective

3. sere - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

[OE. seer, AS. sear (assumed) fr. searian to wither; akin to D. zoor dry, LG. soor, OHG. sor/n to to wither, Gr. a"y`ein to parch, to dry, Skr. /ush (for sush) to dry, to wither, Zend hush to dry. Ã152. Cf. Austere, Sorrel, a.] Dry; withered; no longer green; -- applied to leaves.

Dry; withered. Same as Sear.

Claw; talon.

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Instant gratification is not as good as that gratification which comes dripping slow, over the sere seasons. Donald Barthelme

The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. William Cullen Bryant

The desert sharpened the sweet ache of his longing, amplified it, gave shape to it in sere geology and clean slant of light. Jon Krakauer

The skies they were ashen and sober; The leaves they were crisped and sere - The leaves they were withering and sere; It was night in the lonesome October Of my most immemorial year. Edgar Allan Poe

dried-up grass Source: Internet

the desert was edged with sere vegetation Source: Internet

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