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
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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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