Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Lacking twigs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having no twigs.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having no
twigs .
Etymologies
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twig + -less
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Examples
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Bustard there were on these hills, and herons also, for below me I could see the bare branches of the tree tops on which the broad-winged birds light at nesting time, twigless and skeleton-like.
A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex 1884
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Our olives were as clean and twigless as ever a batch has been.
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