sere /ˈsɪr/
 (a.)乾枯的演替系列
 Sear, Sere a.  Dry; withered; no longer green; -- applied to leaves.
 I have lived long enough; my way of life
 Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf.   --Shak.
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 Sere a. Dry; withered. Same as Sear.
 But with its sound it shook the sails
 That were so thin and sere.   --Coleridge.
 Sere, n.  Claw; talon. [Obs.]
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 sere
      adj : (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" [syn: dried-up, sear,
            shriveled, shrivelled, withered]