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Meanings of flowerless in English

Without flower or bloom and not producing seeds.

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Usage of flowerless in English
1
She leaned against the old flowerless rosebush, almost in its branches.
The Story of a Child
2
The latter are flowerless now, and look as they did before the springtime.
Over Strand and Field: A Record of Travel through Brittany
3
But my sister Rachel abides before the mirror, flowerless; contented with her beautiful eyes.
Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volum...
4
The northern trees are softwood dwarfs, needle-leaved, flowerless, and cone-bearing.
The Red Man's Continent: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America
5
For answer, she gave a scornful glance at the blackened plains, flowerless, grainless, grassless.
The Way of the Wind
6
Paul, who had been sauntering between flowerless beds with his companion, stood stock still.
The Fortunate Youth
7
I looked wistfully at the leafless, flowerless garden, where I had first recognized my Eve.
A Day of Fate
8
Suppose them all extinct, and life would be like a flowerless earth, a starless heaven.
Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
9
I lifted a few of his cuttings for our own home patch, then quite raw and flowerless.
The Irish Times
10
Compared with the hedges and fields of Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Berkshire, and similar south-western localities, it seems flowerless.
Nature Near London
11
A short, steep terrace descended to a formally planted plot, now flowerless, enclosed by low privet hedges.
The Three Black Pennys: A Novel
12
The path was almost flowerless, gloomy.
The Prussian Officer
13
He paced up and down, heedless of where he trod, trampling the flowerless plants down into their black beds.
The Helpmate
14
I have brought to the hive, of which thou art queen, a bee I found lost on a flowerless road.
Thais
15
The tame honey-bees seemed languid and wing-weary, as if they had come all the way up from the flowerless valley.
The Mountains of California
16
There are many subjects which, from fine habit and foliage, even when flowerless, claim notice, and they, too, are described.
Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers / Describing the Most...
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