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🗿 No main body 🚗 No rear storage 🐘 No long nose
trunkless

trunkless

6.6
An animal without a long nose like an elephant's
  • adjective
  • /ˈtrʌŋkləs/
translation icon : sin trompa
  • The ancient animal was trunkless, unlike its modern elephant relatives.

Examples

  • Scientists were surprised to find a trunkless fossil in the region.

  • The trunkless elephant statue stood in the museum.

  • The poem described a trunkless statue standing alone in the desert.

  • Why does that animal look so trunkless?

  • The ancient animal was trunkless, unlike its modern elephant relatives.

  • Scientists were surprised to find a trunkless fossil in the region.

  • Why does that animal look so trunkless?

Synonyms

noseless
vstrunkless
1 8.9

Having no nose

lacks an elongated proboscis specifically rather than all nasal parts

Antonyms

trunked
7.7

An animal with a long nose like an elephant or a plant with a single thick stem

Surface Forms

trunkless positive

Morphology

trunkless = trunk (transparent) = trunk + less

Built from 'trunk' (here meaning elephant's elongated nose) + '-less'; the morphological relation 'without a trunk' is straightforward.

Etymology

Trunkless is made of trunk, like an elephant's long 'nose', and -less, meaning 'without'. So a trunkless animal is one 'without' that long trunk or proboscis.