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Lacking vegetation. Lacking freshness.

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Usage examples (32)
  • It had become an entrenched camp, lying silent, sullen, verdureless, under a gray sky.
  • Huron lovers reside, and the frozen and verdureless heath appointed to the cowards of all the earth.
  • The whole island is but a verdureless sand-drift, of which the outlines are constantly changing under the influence of winds and waters.
  • Owing to causes which we need not explain, rain is almost unknown; the consequence is, the coast presents a dreary, verdureless, forbidding appearance.
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