Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective having no limbs. Opposite of limbed.
  • adjective lacking a bough or boughs. Opposite of boughed.

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  • adjective having no boughs (of trees)

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Examples

  • Drawn by the sea, he took his way through the dim solemn boughless wood, as if to keep a moonlight tryst with his early love.

    The Marquis of Lossie George MacDonald 1864

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