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leaveless

leaveless adjective: without leaves; leafless.

Adjective

leaveless (not comparable)

  1. Without leaves; leafless
    • Then I no more shall court the verdant bay,
      But the dry leaveless trunk on Golgotha.c. 1671, Thomas Carew, verses prefatory to Sandy's Psalms
    • The samples are quartered and are further divided, e.g. into needles, leaves and leaveless twigs.2013, M. Böhmer, M. Kucera, Prospecting and Exploration of Mineral Deposits

Origin of leaveless

From Middle English leveles, equivalent to leaf + -less.

Questions about leaveless

What does leaveless mean?
Leaveless means without leaves; leafless.
What part of speech is leaveless?
Leaveless is an adjective.

Words near leaveless in the dictionary

  1. leave-takings
  2. leaved
  3. leavee
  4. leavees
  5. leaveism
  6. leaveless
  7. leavelet
  8. leavelets
  9. Leavell
  10. Leavells
  11. leavelooker

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