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Definition of Leafless
1. Adjective. Having no leaves.
Definition of Leafless
1. a. Having no leaves or foliage; bearing no foliage.
Definition of Leafless
1. Adjective. Of plants or trees, without leaves. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Leafless
1. having no leaves [adj]
Medical Definition of Leafless
1. Having no leaves or foliage; bearing no foliage. "Leafless groves." . Leaflessness, Leafless plants, plants having no foliage, though leaves may be present in the form of scales and bracts. See Leaf, 1 and 2. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Leafless
Literary usage of Leafless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin (1909)
"CHAPTER XVH GALAPAGOS ARCHIPELAGO The whole Group Volcanic—Numbers of Craters—leafless
Bushes- Colony at Charles Island—James Island—Salt-lake in Crater— ..."
2. Notes by a Naturalist: An Account of Observations Made During the Voyage of by Henry Nottidge Moseley (1892)
"ASCENSION. Valparaiso. The Andes not Conspicuous. Cattle lassoed in the Streets.
Excursion up the Uspallata Pass. leafless Mistletoe on the leafless Cactus. ..."
3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1816)
"... pressed on all sides the Imperial city, a leafless and Hapless trunk which
must fall at the. first stroke of the axe. But his interior and peaceful ..."
4. The Poetical Works of John Dryden by John Dryden (1909)
"... To mollify the man and draw him thence: But Xanthus shall run backward, Ida
stand A leafless mountain, and the Grecian band Shall fight for Troy, if, ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1821)
"THE leafless TREK. THE silver moon careers a sky, Whose breast is bright as
beauty's eye; Though somewhat of a paler hue; Though somewhat of a milder blue; ..."
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