weedless

From weed + -less.

• IPA^(key): /ˈwiːdləs/
• Rhymes: -iːdləs

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.