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branchless

branchless

4.9
A tree or plant with no branches
  • adjective
  • /ˈbrænʧləs/
translation icon : sin ramas
  • This he climbed, laboriously at first because its lower trunk was branchless, then more easily and swiftly as he reached the middle boughs and found handholds.
  • branchless tree
  • branchless trunk

Examples

  • The old garden displayed several tall, branchless trees that had been scorched by the fire.

  • While hiking, we came across a forest filled with branchless trunks, each one standing tall and bare against the sky.

  • In the middle of the blast zone stood a few remaining trees, upright, branchless, and burned black.

  • What a joy it must be to saw and chop such straight, branchless trunks!

    Fiction book (1996)

  • The next day we brought in new cables and were back in business, but a hole gaped in the base of the tower so that it looked like an old rotten and branchless oak that had grown a couple of huge mushrooms on top.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • Tipping back my head, I watched a gyring shape rise higher and higher, a bloated, branchless trunk, horribly segmented and soft—a tremendous worm.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • The architect designed a structure that resembled a branchless plant, creating a striking and modern aesthetic.

Synonyms

unbranched
vsbranchless
6.3

Having one main stem and no side growth

is the simpler term noting only absence of branches
unbranching
vsbranchless
8.4

Not splitting into separate stems or parts

is the simple state of having no branches not the ongoing action
forkless
vsbranchless
5.6

A road or river that does not split into branches

is broader, meaning no branches at all including small ones
boughless
vsbranchless
9.3

A tree with no large branches

is about simple absence of branches rather than division structure

Antonyms

branchy
1 5.1

A tree or plant that has many branches

How Branchy

branchy
1 5.1
branched
3.5
branchless
4.9

Surface Forms

branchless positive
branchless comparative
branchless superlative

Morphology

branchless = branch (transparent) = branch + less

The adjective is directly formed by adding the productive suffix '-less' to 'branch' to indicate absence of branches.

Etymology

Branchless comes from the word branch ('a part of a tree that grows out') plus the ending -less ('without'), so it literally means 'without branches' and is used for a tree, plant, or object that has no branches.