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trunkless, a.|ˈtrʌŋklɪs|
[f. trunk n. + -less.]
Having no trunk; esp. without a body, or severed from the body, as a head.
1631Weever Anc. Fun. Mon. 279 Their trunklesse faces. 1682J. Banks Anna Bullen v. i. 78 The Trunkless Head with darting Eyes beheld her. 1820Examiner No. 630. 290/1 The exhibition of their trunkless heads. 1897Daily News 18 Feb. 2/2 The woolly elephant is trunkless. 1897Naturalist 243 A generation..that lops its oaks into trunkless brush-wood. |