queenless
adjEtymology From queen + -less.
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Without a queen.
- Kramnik is perhaps the greatest exponent of heavyweight queenless middlegames in the history of chess.2012, Neil McDonald, Chess Success: Planning After the Opening, page 55:
- We have yet to identify every factor involved, but one variable is whether the nest contains a queen ant (queenright) or is queenless.2012, Andrew Pullin, Ecology and Conservation of Butterflies:
- Antonyms
- queenright