branchlessadj.
/ˈbrɑːnʃlɪs//ˈbranʃlɪs/ a. Without, or destitute of, branches.
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the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > [adjective] > of or having branch(es) > without leaves or branches
armless1596
branchless1611
unbranched1731
limbless1770
boughless1839
boughed1852
bare-poled1864
staggy1933
rownsepyked1937
the world > space > relative position > inclination > divergence > [adjective] > ramified > that does not branch
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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Tronçonner,..to make headlesse, branchlesse.
1834 T. Aird in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 370 Beneath her branchless palm must Judah sit.
b. figurative and transferred.
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a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iii. iv. 24 Better I were not yours Then your so branchlesse . View more context for this quotation
1879 S. C. Bartlett Egypt to Palestine iii. 39 About midway of this branchless course it enters Egypt.
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