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verdureless, a.|ˈvɜːdjʊəlɪs|
[f. verdure + -less.]
Destitute of verdure; lacking vegetation; bare, bleak. (Freq. from c 1850.)
1824Moir in Blackw. Mag. XVI. 394 The bright-feather'd tribes of the sea..bask on the verdureless brow of the deep. 1831James Phil. Augustus xiv, My heart is like a branch long broken from its stem, withered and verdureless. 1877Dawson Orig. World viii. 181 It was a world of bare, rocky peaks, and verdureless valleys. |