LEAFLESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does leafless mean? 

• LEAFLESS (adjective)
  The adjective LEAFLESS has 1 sense:

1. having no leaves

  Familiarity information: LEAFLESS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEAFLESS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having no leaves

Similar:

aphyllous (having no leaves)

defoliate; defoliated (deprived of leaves)

scapose (resembling or consisting of a scape; having a bare leafless stalk growing directly from the ground)

Antonym:

leafy (having or covered with leaves)

 Context examples 

The remainder was shut off by knolls of old trees, or luxuriant plantations, and the steep woody hills rising behind, to give it shelter, were beautiful even in the leafless month of March.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

High, leafless trees girt it in on three sides, with a thick undergrowth of holly between their trunks.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This time, as the distance was short, I did not mount, but ran with Dogger's stirrup-leather to the lodge gates and up the long, leafless, moonlit avenue to where the white line of the hall buildings looked on either hand on great old gardens.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning; but since dinner (Mrs. Reed, when there was no company, dined early) the cold winter wind had brought with it clouds so sombre, and a rain so penetrating, that further out-door exercise was now out of the question.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Close to the banks of the Garonne there lay a little tract of green sward, with the high wall of a prior's garden upon one side and an orchard with a thick bristle of leafless apple-trees upon the other.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

All this being nothing to me, my vacant attention soon found livelier attraction in the spectacle of a little hungry robin, which came and chirruped on the twigs of the leafless cherry-tree nailed against the wall near the casement.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The four rode alone, for the archers had passed a curve in the road, though Alleyne could still hear the heavy clump, clump of their marching, or catch a glimpse of the sparkle of steel through the tangle of leafless branches.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I was a mile from Thornfield, in a lane noted for wild roses in summer, for nuts and blackberries in autumn, and even now possessing a few coral treasures in hips and haws, but whose best winter delight lay in its utter solitude and leafless repose.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)