Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Destitute of herbs or herbage.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Destitute of herbs or of vegetation.

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  • adjective Destitute of herbs or vegetation.

Etymologies

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herb +‎ -less

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Examples

  • When you are deciding what this is, remember that you can blog about any herb, plant, veggie, or flower for weekend herb blogging, so if you're currently herbless like me, at least in the garden, the Weekend Herb Blogging possibilities are still pretty endless.

    Favorite Foods and My Blog Friends Are Everywhere I Look Kalyn Denny 2005

  • When you are deciding what this is, remember that you can blog about any herb, plant, veggie, or flower for weekend herb blogging, so if you're currently herbless like me, at least in the garden, the Weekend Herb Blogging possibilities are still pretty endless.

    Archive 2005-12-01 Kalyn Denny 2005

  • Fell, like bright Spring upon some herbless plain;

    The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 2003

  • And having crossed this herbless plain, the king came upon another forest full of the retreats of ascetics, beautiful to look at, delightful to the heart and of cool agreeable breezes.

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • They gained the herbless ploughed field and took their station in its center just as the flames darted round on each side of them.

    Woman on the American Frontier William Worthington Fowler

  • And having crossed this herbless plain, the king came upon another forest full of the retreats of ascetics, beautiful to look at, delightful to the heart and of cool agreeable breezes.

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • Rapidly traversing the shrubless, herbless plains of Mesopotamia, they reached at length the town of Mosul, the point from which travellers proceed to visit the ruins of Nineveh.

    The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands Anonymous

  • The geographical position of Mexico, the arid and desolate, herbless and waterless wastes intervening, would prohibit her sending any considerable assistance overland; and, all powerful at court by that time, he would take care that the Russian navy inspired Spain with a distaste for remote Pacific waters.

    Rezánov 1906

  • The deadly vapors entered in, filled his huge chest and tingled in his vast, heroic limbs as he calmly lay down on the rocky, herbless floor and as gently went to sleep, as he did that day in his Mother's arms by the Graybull, long ago.

    The Biography of a Grizzly Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

  • The deadly vapors entered in, filled his huge chest and tingled in his vast, heroic limbs as he calmly lay down on the rocky, herbless floor and as gently went to sleep, as he did that day in his Mother's arms by the Graybull, long ago.

    The Biography of a Grizzly Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

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