fleshless

English

Etymology

From Middle English fleschles, flechles, equivalent to flesh +‎ -less. Cognate with West Frisian fleisleas (“meatless”), Dutch vleesloos (“meatless”), German fleischlos (“meatless”).

Adjective

fleshless (not comparable)

Without flesh, lacking flesh; lean.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
  Thrusting in my head between the stems, I found myself gazing at a fleshless skull.

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