Lacking birds or devoid of bird life; a place or environment where birds are absent.
Compound formed from 'bird' (Old English 'brid') and the suffix '-less' (Old English 'lēas' meaning 'without'). This descriptive term emerged in literary and naturalistic writing to describe stark or barren landscapes.
Silent Spring author Rachel Carson could have used this word to describe the devastated, pesticide-soaked landscapes she warned about—when entire ecosystems lost their birds, it revealed how catastrophically humans had altered nature.
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