tree
noun
a plant having a permanently woody main stem or trunk, ordinarily growing to a considerable height, and usually developing branches at some distance from the ground.
treelessness
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a word derived from
tree.
Example Sentences
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To me no place could be more unattractive than Colorado Springs, from its utter treelessness.
From A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
In Australian use, the word not only implies flatness, but treelessness.
From Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia by Edward Ellis Morris
I am speaking chiefly of the western part of Normandy: the parts about Caen approach more nearly to the flatness, monotony, and dreary treelessness of ordinary French and German scenery.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 by Various
But even in the matter of its treelessness, I’m told, the prairie is reforming.
From The Prairie Child by Ward. E. F. (Edmund Franklin)
Richard Jefferies, who lived for a while at Hove, blessed also the treelessness of Brighton.
From Highways and Byways in Sussex by Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs
