shrub
noun
a woody plant smaller than a tree, usually having multiple permanent stems branching from or near the ground.
shrubless
-
a word derived from
shrub.
Example Sentences
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But Reuben and Jane saw only the desolate rocks, and treeless, shrubless, almost--it seemed to them--grassless fields, and an unutterable sense of gloom came over them.
From Saxe Holm's Stories by Helen Hunt Jackson
What do the birds find to eat in these treeless and shrubless altitudes?
From Birds of the Rockies by Leander S. (Leander Sylvester) Keyser
Looked down on Milford Bay, dotted with little treeless and shrubless islands.
From The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland by Margaret Moran Dixon McDougall
But we can have even in mid-January, and ought to allow ourselves, the lawn-garden's surviving form and tranced life rather than the shrubless lawn's unmarked grave flattened beneath the void of the snow.
From The Amateur Garden by George Washington Cable
Rapidly traversing the shrubless, p. 113herbless plains of Mesopotamia, they reached at length the town of Mosul, the point from which travellers proceed to visit the ruins of Nineveh.
From The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands by Anonymous
