treeless
adjEtymology From tree + -less.
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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:
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- A panoramic view of the Falkland Islands shows a windswept, treeless landscape. Scientists have discovered the islands in the South Atlantic Ocean were once home to a temperate rainforest.2024 September 27, Katie Hunt, “Scientists discover hidden ancient forest on treeless island”, in CNN:
- Derived terms
- treelessly, treelessness