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thornless, a.|ˈθɔːnlɪs|
[f. thorn n. + -less.]
Having no thorns; free from thorns; without a thorn.
1776Withering Brit. Plants (1796) II. 461 [Mespilus germanica] Thornless: leaves spear-shaped, cottony underneath: flowers solitary, sitting. 1803Visct. Strangford Poems of Camoens, To Night (1810) 66, I..Have never yet been one of those Whose love has prov'd a thornless rose! 1825H. Alford in Life 17 Perennial and thornless flowers bloom only in the Paradise above. 1900L. H. Bailey Cycl. Amer. Hort. I. 164/2 The Thornless or Mountain Blackberry..is not in cultivation. 1980M. Spiller Growing Fruit vii. 159 The thornless form of the parsley-leaved blackberry..can be planted a little closer than other varieties.
Hence ˈthornlessness.
1857Livingstone Trav. xviii. 345 The thornlessness of the vegetation is especially noticeable. |