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treeless

treeless adjective: having no trees.

Adjective

treeless (not comparable)

  1. Having no trees.
    • The line is unfenced, except in the vicinity of stations, and runs across the treeless Mesaorian plain for the whole distance between Famagusta and Nicosia.1941 May, W. Dendy, “The Cyprus Government Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 201
    • Their path led them past sharp cliffs, along narrow trails unknown and untrodden, past headlong boulders strewn across barren, treeless, wind-haunted heights.1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 35

Origin of treeless

From tree + -less.

Words formed from treeless

Questions about treeless

What does treeless mean?
Treeless means having no trees.
What part of speech is treeless?
Treeless is an adjective.

Words near treeless in the dictionary

  1. treekind
  2. treelawn
  3. treelawns
  4. treelength
  5. treelengths
  6. treeless
  7. treelessly
  8. treelessness
  9. treelet
  10. treelets
  11. treelike

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