leaflessness
- a word derived from leaf.
Example Sentences
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There was everything to repel—the cold, the frost, the hardness, the snow, dark sky and ground, leaflessness; the very furze chilled and all benumbed.
From Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies by Jefferies, Richard
Alas! poor covert now in their naked leaflessness for the stricken deer!
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 by Wilson, John
This wicket opened directly on a path that wound through a plantation of yews interspersed with tall beeches and elms, whose overarching tops intensified even in Wintry leaflessness the prevalent gloom.
From Plashers Mead A Novel by MacKenzie, Compton
Bald refers to leaflessness of tree in winter.
From Wood and Forest by Noyes, William
Beyond Glurns the road traversed the valley in a diagonal line through a dreary avenue of stunted limes, which in their naked leaflessness looked in the distance like a palisade.
From The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)
