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trunkless

1 6.8

Missing the main body or stem, for example a statue with only legs

adjective
/ˈtrʌŋkləs/

: sin tronco

And Hector not only kills the trunkless, he strips him of his armor, which was that was OK.

I met a traveller from an antique land who said Two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert.

Examples

The tree had fallen, leaving the ground bare and trunkless in the forest.
Two vast and trunkless legs of stone.

Blog text (27)
I met a traveller from an ancient land who said Two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert.
I met a traveller from an antique land who said Two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert.

Lex Fridman
The statue had two vast and trunkless legs standing eerily in the sand.
In the ancient ruins, we encountered trunkless fragments of once-great pillars.

Synonyms

bodiless

vstrunkless

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1 8.2

Only one part of a person or statue is left, for example a head without the rest

is used more broadly for missing a main structural part rather than a detached remnant

bodyless

vstrunkless

1 8.2

Not having any physical shape you can touch, like a voice or shadow

refers to physical lack of a main structural part rather than abstract absence

stemless

vstrunkless

5.7

Without a stalk joining a leaf, flower, mushroom, or glass to its base

focuses on missing the main central support or large structural part instead

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 main part of a body or tree) + '-less'; the meaning 'without a trunk' is directly inferable.

Etymology

Trunkless is made of trunk, the main 'body' or stem of a tree or figure, and -less, meaning 'without'. So a trunkless statue or tree is one 'without' its main body.