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 and brown are the trees, but the Basin has diviner glories than at midsummer, in colors unspeakable of sea and sky, of wild-sailing cloud, of sunset and of moon.

From Vesty of the Basins by Greene, Sarah P. McLean

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

Leafless, spiny, arborescent shrubs, three to ten feet high, with elongated, cylindrical joints, covered with oblong tubercles which bear from three to eight spines.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth