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leaveless

adj

Etymology

From Middle English leveles, equivalent to leaf + -less.

  1. inherited from leveles

Definitions

  1. Without leaves

    Without leaves; leafless

    • c. 1671, Thomas Carew, verses prefatory to Sandy's Psalms Then I no more shall court the verdant bay, But the dry leaveless trunk on Golgotha.
    • The samples are quartered and are further divided, e.g. into needles, leaves and leaveless twigs.

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