a. [f. TREE sb. + -LESS.] Destitute of trees; containing no trees.
1814. Wordsw., Excurs., II. 337. A quiet treeless nook.
1841. Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl., IV. 266/2. Another hundred years may see the United States a treeless country.
1873. J. Geikie, Gt. Ice Age, xxiv. 322. A bare and treeless state must have preceded the age of forests.
Hence Treelessness.
1869. Lady Barker, Station Life N. Zealand, iv. (1874), 25. The utter treelessness of the vast Canterbury Plains.
1884. Macm. Mag., Nov., 18/2. A diminished rainfall warned the planters that treelessness means rainlessness.
