woodless
Lacking any trees
Woodless means lacking wood or trees.
A woodless landscape is barren of forests.
A woodless fire burns without wood fuel.
The word is rare, appearing mainly in descriptions of treeless terrain or in contexts where wood's absence matters: The woodless prairie stretched to the horizon.
Having no woods
- bareLacking any covering
- strippedHad coverings removed
- exposedOut in open
- unadornedLacking decoration or ornament
empty · clear · plain · uncovered · sparse · devoid · stark · austere
Grassy field for grazing
- prairieOpen grassy flatland
- savannaTropical grassland, sparse trees
- steppeTreeless Eurasian grassland
- grasslandTreeless herb-covered ecosystem
plain · pampas · veld · tundra · heath · moorland · plateau · fell
Harvesting every standing tree
- loggingRecording system events
- deforestationLarge-scale woodland elimination
- clearancePermitted passage or approval
- fellingDowning standing timber
stripping · slash-and-burn · desertification · overgrazing · erosion · reforestation · regrowth · stumps
treeless
Having no woods
unadorned · empty · clear · plain · uncovered · sparse · devoid · stark · austere · denuded
meadow
Grassy field for grazing
grassland · plain · pampas · veld · tundra · heath · moorland · plateau · fell · dale
clearcutting
Harvesting every standing tree
- loggingRecording system events
- deforestationLarge-scale woodland elimination
- clearancePermitted passage or approval
felling · stripping · slash-and-burn · desertification · overgrazing · erosion · reforestation · regrowth · stumps · degradation