treeless
Adjective
Meaning
Destitute of trees.
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The mountains dwindled away into hills covered with a dark, stunted scrub. Beyond them the land flattened out to the horizon, a treeless immensity of white and gray-green, a spongy mossiness flecked with a million icy ponds. The wind blew, sometimes hard, sometimes harder.
In a treeless country, the castor-oil plant is a big tree.
A dragon will be teased by a shrimp in a shoal water; a tiger will be bullied by a dog on a treeless plain.
"By 1876, landscape designer Frederick Law Olmsted and architect Calvert Vaux had transformed the swampy, treeless 50 blocks between Harlem and midtown Manhattan into the first landscaped park in the United States."
His efforts gradually turned a treeless slope southwest of the Administration Building into a dense forest grove.
An enterprising young urchin I used to buy 5 & 10c Ice Cubes and Reeses Peanut Butter Cups, and sell them for 10 & 15c in the treeless PS 168 schoolyard.