"budless" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈbʌdləs/
Etymology: From bud + -less. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|bud|less}} bud + -less Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} budless (not comparable)
  1. Without any buds. Tags: not-comparable Derived forms: budlessness
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          "ref": "1893, Lily Dougall, What Necessity Knows:",
          "text": "But now it was afternoon--which, we all know, brings a somewhat more depressing air--and the budless thickets stood so close, so still, Saul became conscious that his load was a corpse.",
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