spikeless

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

spike +‎ -less

Adjective[edit]

spikeless (not comparable)

  1. Without a spike or spikes.
    • 1998, Golf Journal, volumes 51-52, page 120:
      As the leader in spikeless golf shoes, we have what you want.
    • 2006, Colin Tudge, The Secret Life of Trees:
      Yet on islands in the Indian Ocean that lack insouciant ramblers and rapacious herbivores the palms are spikeless – just as birds on islands that traditionally had no humans or cats tend to be tame []