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lairless

lairless adjective: without a lair.

Adjective

lairless (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Without a lair.
    • He is a dog — and the pup of a dog — red, yellow-bellied, lairless, and haired between every toe!1895, Rudyard Kipling, “Red Dog”, in The Second Jungle Book

Origin of lairless

From lair + -less.

Questions about lairless

What does lairless mean?
Lairless means without a lair.
What part of speech is lairless?
Lairless is an adjective.

Words near lairless in the dictionary

  1. lairisers
  2. lairises
  3. lairising
  4. lairize
  5. lairizing
  6. lairless
  7. lairlike
  8. Lairmore
  9. lairs
  10. lairs it up
  11. lairs up

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