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plantless

plantless adjective: without plants (non-animal organisms).

Adjective

plantless (not comparable)

  1. Without plants (non-animal organisms).
    • Lynn lived on LeRoy Street in a basement apartment through which the street dust blew into the dust of the plantless garden.1960, Donald Windham, The hero continues, page 20

Origin of plantless

From plant + -less. Piecewise doublet of clanless.

Words formed from plantless

Questions about plantless

What does plantless mean?
Plantless means without plants (non-animal organisms).
What part of speech is plantless?
Plantless is an adjective.

Words near plantless in the dictionary

  1. plantings
  2. plantivorous
  3. plantkin
  4. plantkind
  5. plantkins
  6. plantless
  7. plantlessness
  8. plantlet
  9. plantlets
  10. plantlife
  11. plantlike

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