You can describe something that is dried up, withered, or without moisture with the adjective sere. The desert climate, for example, is sere, as is your skin after a day in the wind.
Sere’s shriveled and withered meaning crops up in things like Shakespeare's Macbeth (My way of life Is fall’n into the sere, the yellow leaf; 5:III), or in archaic reference to Sere-month (August), but it isn't frequently used in normal modern conversation. The variant spelling of sere is sear, which has other meanings that see more modern use.
