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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It was the edge of a great open, a bit of the Barren that reached down like a solitary finger from the North: treeless, shrubless, the playground of the foxes and the storm winds.
From God's Country—And the Woman by James Oliver Curwood
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
This happened at the Salt Field,--a treeless, shrubless waste on the edge of the desert five thousand paces west of Decimum.
From The Scarlet Banner by Felix Dahn
The whole Hunnish forest trembled where'er the warriors rode; over the shrubless, all-green plains they sped.
From The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Saemund Sigfusson
The heat was wavering up from the treeless, shrubless expanse; the white sun was over it as hot as a furnace blast.
From Trail's End by George W. (George Washington) Ogden
