a. [f. VERDURE + -LESS.] Destitute of verdure; lacking vegetation; bare, bleak. (Freq. from c. 1850.)
1824. Morr, in Blackw. Mag., XVI. 394. The bright-feather’d tribes of the sea … bask on the verdureless brow of the deep.
1831. G. P. R. James, Phil. Augustus, xiv. My heart is like a branch long broken from its stem, withered and verdureless.
1877. Dawson, Orig. World, viii. 181. It was a world of bare, rocky peaks, and verdureless valleys.
