Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Destitute of trees: as, a treeless desert.

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  • adjective Destitute of trees.

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  • adjective having no trees

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  • adjective not wooded

Etymologies

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tree +‎ -less

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Examples

  • Meanwhile, in treeless Isengard, the evil wizard Saruman uses his own orcs to generate the wealth he uses to support his pipe-weed habit.

    Workers of Middle-earth, unite! Michael D.C. Drout 2010

  • I can only tell you about my treeless which is a Total Saddles Solution and which sits very close to the withers compared with a treed saddle, but still needs clearance of about one finger.

    unknown title 2009

  • People can adapt to anything, I think, and this is demonstrated by the success of the Inuit in the treeless Arctic itself.

    Kevin Patterson - An interview with author 2010

  • But joyous children (and their dogs) are everywhere: tearing through the maze of alleys, clomping through puddles, singing with delight in their cheap, tidy school clothes in their cement (again treeless) schoolyards, and playing in grimy streets under the watchful eyes of worn-out mothers who sit on their well-scrubbed front steps in their threadbare frocks.

    Intimate History 2010

  • That left the problem of filming the horse—who wasn't called Blackie for nothing—in close-up at night, while the animal was in full gallop, across a treeless plain, in the dark.

    How to Shoot a Horse: A Cinematographer's Secrets Richard B. Woodward 2011

  • Endless treeless look-a-like barrios of wall-to-wall pedestrian housing interspersed with nondescript concrete plazauelas featuring ugly neighborhood churches and, while the historic center was attractive and lively, we could never find a home in our expected price range in that area that made sense to us.

    Neighborhoods of Merida 2009

  • But joyous children (and their dogs) are everywhere: tearing through the maze of alleys, clomping through puddles, singing with delight in their cheap, tidy school clothes in their cement (again treeless) schoolyards, and playing in grimy streets under the watchful eyes of worn-out mothers who sit on their well-scrubbed front steps in their threadbare frocks.

    Intimate History 2010

  • But joyous children (and their dogs) are everywhere: tearing through the maze of alleys, clomping through puddles, singing with delight in their cheap, tidy school clothes in their cement (again treeless) schoolyards, and playing in grimy streets under the watchful eyes of worn-out mothers who sit on their well-scrubbed front steps in their threadbare frocks.

    Intimate History 2010

  • Instead, in Minnesota in February, a Port is an entrance to a treeless frozen plain.

    Explore MN: Lake Minnetonka! « Biodork 2010

  • What a disappointment I experienced when Merida turned out to be a concrete and mostly treeless hot and humid warren of low-slung cement characterless houses and nondescript squares with endless streets leading nowhere.

    Neighborhoods of Merida 2009

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