Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Without plants; destitute of vegetation.

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

  • adjective Without plants; barren of vegetation.

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  • adjective Without plants (non-animal organisms).

Etymologies

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plant +‎ -less

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Examples

  • God forms the first human being (adam) out of this plantless dirt (adamah).

    Norman Wirzba: Gardening with God Norman Wirzba 2010

  • Geez, I haven't evolved much from having plantless NYC apartments because I kept putting them on top of radiators...

    Archive 2009-03-01 2009

  • Geez, I haven't evolved much from having plantless NYC apartments because I kept putting them on top of radiators...

    A PACKING BREAK 2009

  • So I have resigned myself to a house-plantless existence for the life of the cat anyway.

    House Plants Hate Me Anne Johnson 2009

  • Or maybe it was only in comparison with the dry, plantless desert around him that they looked alive.

    Thin Air Kristine Kathryn Rusch 2000

  • Or maybe it was only in comparison with the dry, plantless desert around him that they looked alive.

    Thin Air Kristine Kathryn Rusch 2000

  • The living-room in the lads 'hostel, in sharp contrast to the girls', was plantless, without cushions and was grubbily scattered with newspapers, empty beer cans, pornography, dirty plates and muddy boots.

    Longshot Francis, Dick 1990

  • The living-room in the lads 'hostel, in sharp contrast to the girls', was plantless, without cushions and was grubbily scattered with newspapers, empty beer cans, pornography, dirty plates and muddy boots.

    Longshot Francis, Dick 1990

  • I am camped to-night on what I call Quarry Mountain from its raw, loose, plantless condition, seven or eight miles above the front of the glacier.

    Travels in Alaska John Muir 1876

  • A few of the patches probably lie all the year, the ground beneath them is so plantless.

    Travels in Alaska John Muir 1876

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