How do you use Leafless in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like defoliate or defoliated, plus the exact meaning.
Leafless in a sentence
Leafless meaning
Of plants or trees, without leaves.
Synonyms of Leafless
Using Leafless
- The main meaning on this page is: Of plants or trees, without leaves.
- Useful related words include: aphyllous, defoliate, defoliated, scapose.
- In the example corpus, leafless often appears in combinations such as: leafless stems, the leafless, two leafless.
Context around Leafless
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 4 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 13 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Leafless
- In this selection, "leafless" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 27.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, branched, erect, two, stems, shrubbery and trees stand out and add context to how "leafless" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include an erect leafless scape flowering and and the leafless woodlands to. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "leafless" sits close to words such as aaronson, abai and abass, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with leafless
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
February is the best month to prune crepe myrtles, as the trees are leafless. (14 words)
Gastrodia Lohitensis, the leafless orchid, was found by Krishna Chowlu and the BSI team. (14 words)
They only know to wait at a tree, and there is indeed a leafless one nearby. (16 words)
PMR indicates some degree of powdery mildew resistance; afila types, also called semi-leafless, have clusters of tendrils instead of leaves. citation Unless otherwise noted these are so called dwarf varieties which grow to an average height of about 1m. (40 words)
Some euphorbias have leafless, rounded bodies adapted to water conservation similar to those of globular cacti, but characters such as the structure of their flowers make it clear that the two groups are not closely related. (36 words)
There is little doubt that Jefferson would have found any one of these realities an unacceptable imposition of tyranny and their combined flourishing as demonstrable evidence that the “tree of liberty” is leafless and dying. (35 words)
Example sentences (13)
Just outside my home-office window, I noticed a bird’s nest about 4 feet high in some leafless shrubbery on a cold, winter’s day.
There is little doubt that Jefferson would have found any one of these realities an unacceptable imposition of tyranny and their combined flourishing as demonstrable evidence that the “tree of liberty” is leafless and dying.
Browntail moths, which can cause allergic relations in humans due to their toxic tiny hairs, have settled into nests high up in leafless trees for the winter.
February is the best month to prune crepe myrtles, as the trees are leafless.
Gastrodia Lohitensis, the leafless orchid, was found by Krishna Chowlu and the BSI team.
Aloe flowers are tubular, frequently yellow, orange, pink, or red, and are borne, densely clustered and pendant, at the apex of simple or branched, leafless stems.
Each bulb generally produces just two or three linear leaves and an erect, leafless scape (flowering stalk), which bears at the top a pair of bract-like spathe valves joined by a papery membrane.
Each bulb produces one or two leafless stems 30–60 cm tall, each of which bears a cluster of two to twelve funnel-shaped flowers at their tops.
In the late 1800s, home-made white Christmas trees were made by wrapping strips of cotton batting around leafless branches creating the appearance of a snow-laden tree.
James Frazer suggests "It was perhaps a natural thought that the approach of winter should drive the poor, shivering, hungry ghosts from the bare fields and the leafless woodlands to the shelter of the cottage".
PMR indicates some degree of powdery mildew resistance; afila types, also called semi-leafless, have clusters of tendrils instead of leaves. citation Unless otherwise noted these are so called dwarf varieties which grow to an average height of about 1m.
Some euphorbias have leafless, rounded bodies adapted to water conservation similar to those of globular cacti, but characters such as the structure of their flowers make it clear that the two groups are not closely related.
They only know to wait at a tree, and there is indeed a leafless one nearby.
Common combinations with leafless
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: