Meanings
- not comparableWithout plants (non-animal organisms).
Lynn lived on LeRoy Street in a basement apartment through which the street dust blew into the dust of the plantless garden.
1960, Donald Windham, The hero continues, page 20
Origin
From plant + -less. Piecewise doublet of clanless.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
German vegetationslos
- vegetationsloswithout plants
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plantless. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/plantless
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