Jointed and nearly leafless desert shrub having reduced scale like leaves and reddish fleshy seeds.
I can't get enough of them, especially around Halloween when the shadows from the leafless trees take on ominous shapes. Yikes!
Even braced, chained, and trussed, they had struggled, jagged and leggy; at this time of year, when they were leafless and bent, one couldn’t say for sure whether they were even alive.
I'm entering some bright, burning country - leafless, wild.
The oaks are still leafless, but daffodils are out everywhere, the gorse is spattered with yellow blossoms, and the tits and thrushes are singing their hearts out.
The remainder was shut off by knolls of old trees, or luxuriant plantations, and the steep woody hills rising behind, to give it shelter, were beautiful even in the leafless month of March.
A wind was springing up outside, making the tall old trees in the garden creak their leafless boughs.
As we travelled on, the country became even more barren, with here and there a dead cow, others on their last legs, moving like wraiths among the leafless trees.
Out of the open country, in again among ruinous buildings, solitary farms, dye-works, tanneries, and the like, cottages in twosand threes, avenues of leafless trees.
The green leafless red flowers.
It was an odd and charming shrub with a long stem, whose numerous branches, bristling and leafless and as fine as threads, were covered with a million tiny white rosettes,this gave the shrub the air of a head of hair studded with flowers.
Far away through the plantation Vega sparkled like a lamp suspended amid the leafless trees.
We look out the window and admire the elegance of ice crystal, the bravely patient tree leaning leafless into the wind, the dramatic shadows of the stooping sun.
Even above the hissing boom of the larchwood, that spread its bristling, leafless, wolfish darkness on the down-slope, she heard the tinkle as of tiny water-bells.
