flowerless

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From flower + -less. Piecewise doublet of flourless.

But, in proportion to one’s imaginative anticipation, I have never seen such a monotonous, flowerless wilderness as this bush appears. — The North-West Amazons: Notes of some months spent among cannibal tribes, Thomas Whiffen
Then a strong wind beats down all the flowers, save such as are protected by the leaves of hedges and groves; and a mighty storm of rain and hail drenches the ladies and knights, shelterless in the now flowerless meadow. — The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems, Geoffrey Chaucer
The little yard in front of it was grassy and prim and flowerless; but over the low front door a luxuriant early-flowering rose vine clambered, in a riot of blood-red blossom which contrasted strangely with the general bareness of its surroundings. — Kilmeny of the Orchard, L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

nonflowering

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