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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
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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