fleshless
adjEtymology From Middle English fleschles, flechles, equivalent to flesh + -less. Cognate with West Frisian fleisleas (“meatless”), Dutch vleesloos (“meatless”), German fleischlos (“meatless”).
1
Without flesh, lacking flesh; lean.
- Thrusting in my head between the stems, I found myself gazing at a fleshless skull.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
- Derived terms
- fleshlessness