adjective. Bearing no leaves; leafless.

In botany, destitute of leaves: applied to flowering plants that are naturally leafless, as most Cactaceæ, and to thallogenous cryptogams.

adjective. Destitute of leaves, as the broom rape, certain euphorbiaceous plants, etc.

adjective. Having no leaves.

adjective. having no leaves

"Nor are there any extensive families peculiar to these regions; the only characteristic tribes being that small section of aphyllous, or nearly aphyllous Cassiae, which I have particularly adverted to in my account of some of the species belonging to Captain Sturt's collection; and several genera of Myoporinae, particularly Eremophila and Stenochilus."

leafless