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spikeless

spikeless adjective: without a spike or spikes.

Adjective

spikeless (not comparable)

  1. Without a spike or spikes.
    • As the leader in spikeless golf shoes, we have what you want.1998, Golf Journal, volumes 51-52, page 120
    • Yet on islands in the Indian Ocean that lack insouciant ramblers and rapacious herbivores the palms are spikeless – just as birds on islands that traditionally had no humans or cats tend to be tame[…]2006, Colin Tudge, The Secret Life of Trees

Origin of spikeless

From spike + -less.

Questions about spikeless

What does spikeless mean?
Spikeless means without a spike or spikes.
What part of speech is spikeless?
Spikeless is an adjective.

Words near spikeless in the dictionary

  1. spikegrasses
  2. spikehorn
  3. spikehorns
  4. spikein
  5. spikeins
  6. spikeless
  7. spikelet
  8. spikeleted
  9. spikelets
  10. spikeletted
  11. spikelike

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