trunkless
Lacking a body
Trunkless means lacking a trunk—most often describing a statue or body without its torso, as in Shelley's famous line about Ozymandias: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert.
The word can also describe a tree without its main stem, or an elephant without its proboscis, though these uses are rare.
Body without limbs
- statueThree-dimensional sculpted likeness
- fragmentIncomplete portion of whole
- ruinComplete destruction or collapse
- pedestalSupport for statuary
Ozymandias · legs · desert · shattered · remnant · colossal · sculpture · broken
Without arms or legs
- bodylessWithout physical form
- disembodiedWithout a physical body
- dismemberedHad limbs cut off
- severedCut off completely
amputated · incomplete · partial · fragmented · bodiless · truncated · mutilated · headless
torso
Body without limbs
- statueThree-dimensional sculpted likeness
- fragmentIncomplete portion of whole
- ruinComplete destruction or collapse
Ozymandias · pedestal · legs · desert · shattered · remnant · colossal · sculpture · broken · ancient
limbless
Without arms or legs
- bodylessWithout physical form
- disembodiedWithout a physical body
- dismemberedHad limbs cut off
severed · amputated · incomplete · partial · fragmented · bodiless · truncated · mutilated · headless · legless
stump
Trunk base after felling
logged · cleared · deforested · cut · pruned · toppled · uprooted · barren · stripped · limbless