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Definition of Herbless
1. a. Destitute of herbs or of vegetation.
Definition of Herbless
1. Adjective. Destitute of herbs or vegetation. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Herbless
1. lacking herbs [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Herbless
Literary usage of Herbless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Harper's Cyclopaedia of British and American Poetry edited by Epes Sargent (1882)
"... Spreading and swelling, till it broke In showers on all the herbless land,—
And hearts were glad, and shouts went up, And praise to Israel's mighty God, ..."
2. History of California by Theodore Henry Hittell (1898)
"... of the Sierra Nevada, consists of a high, dry, volcanic country, with a few
lakes, more or less salty, and long stretches of treeless, herbless deserts, ..."
3. An Introduction to the Study of Rhetoric: Lessons in Phraseology by Helen Josephine Robins, Agnes Frances Perkins (1907)
"... and it almost touches with its wings the crest of waves that would overthrow
a granite wall and haunts the hollows of the bleak, cold, herbless rocks ..."
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