leafless

Etymology

From earlier leaveless, from Middle English leveles, equivalent to leaf + -less.

adj

1. Of plants or trees, without leaves.
   In winter the leafless trees look cold.
   For many times with the laughing girls and boys / Played I along the road and over the hills / When the sun was low and the air was cool, / Stopping to club the walnut tree / Standing leafless against a flaming west. 1915, Edgar Lee Masters, “Hare Drummer”, in Spoon River Anthology, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, page 27