Definition of Twigless

1. a. Having no twigs.

Definition of Twigless

1. Adjective. Having no twigs. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Twigless

1. having no twigs [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Twigless

twig snakes
twigged
twiggen
twiggers
twiggier
twiggiest
twigging
twiggy
twight
twighted
twighting
twights
twigil
twigils
twigless (current term)
twiglike
twigloo
twigloos
twigs
twigsome
twilight
twilight(a)
twilight sleep
twilight state
twilight vision
twilight years
twilight zone
twilight zones
twilightish

Literary usage of Twigless

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle by Lyman Hotchkiss] [Bagg (1887)
"Ailanthus Square was indeed a wretched place, stiffly laid out, shabbily kept, planted with mean twigless trees ; and in the middle stood the basin of an ..."

2. The Indian Forester (1894)
"... namely (1) that of crooked and knotty growth, the stems being short and thick, crooked and often horizontal, with twigless branches which twist in every ..."

3. Danger Signals for Teachers by Albert Edward Winship (1919)
"... some entirely new thinking, who does not have some radically new ideas, who has not some strictly new vision, aspiration, is as dead as a twigless tree. ..."

4. The Mountains by Stewart Edward White (1904)
"It covers entirely sundry twigless branches. Always in appearance is it fantastic, decorative, almost Japanese, as though consciously laid in with its vivid ..."

5. An Encyclopædia of Gardening: Comprising the Theory and Practice of by John Claudius Loudon (1822)
"... and cutting out the old, naked, or twigless shoots ; thus presenting at all times a well-balanced tree. The steins of these trees, when first planted, ..."

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