leafless

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Leafless tree trunks jut out like burnt toothpicks.

From New York Times • Sep. 15, 2017

Leafless, branchless, barkless, they are reduced to their trunks and worn to a smooth silver-gray, as if they had always carried their own tombstones inside them.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 20, 2015

Leafless woods, prodigious boulders and white torrents foaming and roaring seemed a poor exchange for the pleasantly-ordered gardens of Pianura.

From The Valley of Decision by Wharton, Edith

Hollow and gaunt, my wand Shrill whistles, bending in the gale; Leafless and sad I stand, And, still neglected, still bewail.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 by Various

Hail and wind with fury shower, Leafless mourns the rifled bower!

From The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times by Biese, Alfred