a. [f. FOREST sb. + -LESS.] Devoid of forests, unwooded.
1884. American, IX. 27 Dec., 183/3. As if an English man settled on the open prairie should speak of our land as a forestless area of grass.
1885. J. S. Stallybrass, trans. Hehn’s The Wanderings of Plants and Animals, 228. This giant grass [cane] is not only a substitute for fire-wood in the forestless south, but is used to prop vines, to hedge fields and gardens, to form arbours, railings, and the frame-work of plaster ceilings.
