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herbless

  • a word derived from herb.

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On leafless grove and herbless lawn Warm lie the yellow beams of noon; Yet winter is not gone.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864 by Various

Steaming, burnt-out, and herbless as the district is on this side of the town, it is just as refreshing, green, and fertile on the opposite side of Fahlun.

From Pictures of Sweden by Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian)

Friendship, hand in hand with admiration, tenderness and respect, built a bower of delight in my heart, late rough as an untrod wild in America, as the homeless wind or herbless sea.

From The Last Man by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft

It was apparently unaltered in a single feature: herbless and treeless, it occupied more than one half of the visible horizon, that is to say, from 10 degrees east of north, westward round to south.

From Expedition into Central Australia by Sturt, Charles

Here were the wreathed and fantastic shapes she remembered too well, the wildly tossed, the bare and herbless rocks.

From Baron Bruno Or, the Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories by Morgan, Louisa