weedless

English

Etymology

weed +‎ -less

Adjective

weedless (not comparable)

  1. Lacking weeds.
    • 1936, Arthur Guiterman, First Dentistry was Painless:
      Soon oranges were seedless,
      The putting green was weedless,
      The college boy hatless,
      The proper diet, fatless, […]
    • 1960, Rupert Croft-Cooke, The Altar in the Loft, page 210:
      I remember the fresh weedless lawns between the school buildings […]
  2. (of a motorboat propeller) Having blades that curve backwards, as respects the direction of rotation, so that they draw through the water without accumulating weeds.
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