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trunkless

trunkless adjective: without a trunk.

Adjective

trunkless (not comparable)

  1. Without a trunk.
    • Two vast and trunkless legs of stone / Stand in the desert.1817 (published 11 January 1818), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Sonnet. Ozymandias.”, in Rosalind and Helen, a Modern Eclogue; with Other Poems, London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for C[harles] and J[ames] Ollier...

Origin of trunkless

From trunk + -less.

Words formed from trunkless

Questions about trunkless

What does trunkless mean?
Trunkless means without a trunk.
What part of speech is trunkless?
Trunkless is an adjective.

Words near trunkless in the dictionary

  1. trunkful
  2. trunkfuls
  3. trunkhose
  4. trunking
  5. trunkings
  6. trunkless
  7. trunklessness
  8. trunklid
  9. trunklids
  10. trunklike
  11. trunkline

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