woodlessadj.
/ˈwʊdləs/, U.S. /ˈwʊdləs/ Destitute of wood or woods; treeless.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [adjective] > wooded > lacking
woodless1551
unshrubbeda1616
unwooded1628
treeless1794
uncypressed1799
untimbered1808
shrubless1816
bushless1830
groveless1835
timberless1859
forestless1884
unforested1885
1551 W. Turner New Herball sig. P ij Our heth groweth in playnes..and vpon sum wodles hylles.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Norf. 246 Here are Fens and Heaths..and Meddows and Pasture, and Arable and Woody, and (generally) woodless land.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 141 The coasts are..rocky..and woodless.
1835 J. Duncan Nat. Hist. Beetles (Naturalist's Libr.: Entomol. II) 96 Travellers across the woodless pampas sometimes make their fire of a dead horse.
1881 L. H. Morgan Contrib. N. Amer. Ethnol. 106 The woodless plains of the Sacramento.
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