English
trunkless
From trunk + -less.
Formed from trunk + -less
Latin truncus ‘a stock, lopped tree trunk’
Old French tronc ‘alms box, tree trunk, headless body’
Middle English tronke ‘a tree trunk’
English trunk
Today it means
adj Without a trunk.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “trunkless”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / trunkless