flowerless

[ flou-er-lis ]

/ ˈflaʊ ər lɪs /

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adjective

having or producing no flowers.

Botany. having no true seeds; cryptogamic.

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Origin of flowerless

First recorded in 1490–1500; flower + -less

OTHER WORDS FROM flowerless

flow·er·less·ness, noun

Words nearby flowerless

flowering plant, flowering quince, flowering raspberry, flowering tobacco, flowering wintergreen, flowerless, flowerlet, flowerlike, flower-of-an-hour, flower-of-Jove, flowerpecker

How to use flowerless in a sentence

The earliest forms of which we have any knowledge were flowerless plants, which produced minute spores instead of seeds.
Gospel Philosophy|J. H. Ward
There are about 110,000 species of flowering plants and nearly as many flowerless plants.
A Civic Biology|George William Hunter
Writing of these flowerless beauties, I am tempted to exclaim again, "Happy the humble!"
A Rambler's lease|Bradford Torrey
Its stem is thin but hard, and much branched, the numerous flowerless branches usually forming a dense tuft close to the ground.
Field and Woodland Plants|William S. Furneaux

The jubilant cry from the flowering thorn to the flowerless willow, "smite, smite, smite."
Foe-Farrell|Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

British Dictionary definitions for flowerless

flowerless

/ (ˈflaʊəlɪs) /

adjective

designating any plant that does not produce seedsSee cryptogam

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