a. [f. WOOD sb.1 + -LESS.] Destitute of wood or woods; treeless.

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1551.  Turner, Herbal, I. P ij. Our heth groweth in playnes … and vpon sum wodles hylles.

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a. 1661.  Fuller, Worthies, Norfolk (1662), 246. Here are Fens and Heaths,… and Meddows and Pasture, and Arable and Woody, and (generally) woodless land.

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1796.  Morse, Amer. Geog., I. 141. The coasts are … rocky … and woodless.

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1835.  J. Duncan, Beetles (Nat. Libr.), 96. Travellers across the woodless pampas sometimes make their fire of a dead horse.

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1881.  Morgan, Contrib. Amer. Ethnol., 106. The woodless plains of the Sacramento.

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