plantless

• a word derived from plant.
  plant

  noun

  any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or the use of photosynthesis.

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plantless

Mr. Stanfield, who is 26, met to chat in a cafe not far from his presumably plantless North Hollywood home.

From New York Times ● Jul. 4, 2018

A guide from Etna was about to drive them up to the site of the eruption in a vehicle adapted to the rugged, plantless terrain of the volcano.

From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2018

Its plantless expanse told her it was not the way to go.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

A few of the patches probably lie all the year, the ground beneath them is so plantless.

From Travels in Alaska by John Muir

Indeed, he justly remarks, where at the present moment do we find such plantless wastes?

From The History of the European Fauna by Robert Francis Scharff

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