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trailless

trailless adjective: without a trail.

Adjective

trailless (not comparable)

  1. Without a trail.
    • Mr. Whitmore and Mr. Kane attacked the Chiricahua Mountains in southeast Arizona, the Baboquivaris just east of the Tohono O’odham Reservation and the practically trailless Winchesters, west of Benson.2007 January 25, Tom Miller, “Hiking Club Spreads a Little Bit of Charlie on Every Peak”, in New York Times

Origin of trailless

From trail + -less.

Words formed from trailless

Questions about trailless

What does trailless mean?
Trailless means without a trail.
What part of speech is trailless?
Trailless is an adjective.

Words near trailless in the dictionary

  1. trailingly
  2. trailings
  3. Traill
  4. Traill County
  5. Traill's flycatcher
  6. trailless
  7. traillessness
  8. trailmaker
  9. trailmakers
  10. trailmaking
  11. trailman

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