winter-dead

Right now, I'm looking at a snowy 6 feet of back yard (I live in an apartment complex) and a stand of winter-dead brush and trees that have entwined themselves in the chain link fence that separates my apartment complex from the one behind us.

"Take the poison of your age. Don't lick your fingers when you turn the page." greygirlbeast 2010

The going was slower, because the winter-dead grass had gotten slicker with the rain, and the dirt in the bare patches had turned to slippery mud.

Ordermaster Modesitt, L. E. 2005

All that Sharpe saw in a few seconds, as he saw the thorn bushes that grew like weeds in one corner, the vines that straggled winter-dead up the fine, pale stonework, as he saw the soldiers on the courtyard below.

Sharpe's Enemy Cornwell, Bernard 1984