MEANING
Without leaves, especially of trees or branches during dormancy or after seasonal loss.
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Use bare trees or branches to suggest season, exposure, or loss.Make a landscape feel exposed, dormant, or stripped back.
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- leafless branches
- leafless trees
- leafless canopy
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Leafless branches scratched the gray sky above the shuttered greenhouse.
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Leafless describes the absence of foliage, often seasonally; it does not by itself mean that a tree is dead.
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