treeless

From tree +‎ -less.

treeless (not comparable)

1. Having no trees.
   • 1941 May, W. Dendy, “The Cyprus Government Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 201:

     The line is unfenced, except in the vicinity of stations, and runs across the treeless Mesaorian plain for the whole distance between Famagusta and Nicosia.

   • 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 35:

     Their path led them past sharp cliffs, along narrow trails unknown and untrodden, past headlong boulders strewn across barren, treeless, wind-haunted heights.

   • 2024 September 27, Katie Hunt, “Scientists discover hidden ancient forest on treeless island”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     A panoramic view of the Falkland Islands shows a windswept, treeless landscape. Scientists have discovered the islands in the South Atlantic Ocean were once home to a temperate rainforest.

• resteels, steelers