fleshless
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English fleschles, flechles, equivalent to flesh + -less. Cognate with West Frisian fleisleas (“meatless”), Dutch vleesloos (“meatless”), German fleischlos (“meatless”).
Adjective
[edit]fleshless (not comparable)
- Without flesh, lacking flesh; lean.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
- Thrusting in my head between the stems, I found myself gazing at a fleshless skull.