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Beardless

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Lacking a beard.

    "A eunuch is a negative creature. A beardless Moslem is contemptuously designated as manless."

  2. 2
    Not having reached puberty or manhood; youthful. broadly

    "shall a beardless boy, Cocker’d silken wanton, brave our fields, And flesh his spirit in a warlike soil, Mocking the air with colours idly spread, And find no check?"

  3. 3
    Lacking an awn.

    "beardless wheat"

  4. 4
    Lacking a beard (a defined patch of feathers below the beak).
Adjective
  1. 1
    lacking hair on the face wordnet
  2. 2
    having no beard wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English bērdlēs, from Old English beardlēas (“beardless”), from Proto-West Germanic *bardalaus (“beardless”), equivalent to beard + -less. Cognate with Scots berdles (“beardless”), Saterland Frisian boartloos (“beardless”), West Frisian burdleas (“beardless”), Dutch baardeloos (“beardless”), German Low German baartlos (“beardless”), German bartlos (“beardless”).

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