herbless

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

herb +‎ -less

Adjective[edit]

herbless (comparative more herbless, superlative most herbless)

  1. Destitute of herbs or vegetation.
    • 1746, Thomas Warton, Odes on Various Subjects:
      his bed the herbless ground
    • 1880, Thomas Hardy, The Trumpet-Major:
      The wild, herbless, weather-worn promontory was quite a solitude, and, saving the one old lighthouse about fifty yards up the slope, scarce a mark was visible to show that humanity had ever been near the spot.
  2. (cooking) Having no herbs as ingredients.
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