fishless
Without fish.
Adjective
- Without fish.
- This chapter describes the present-day colonisation by trout of a previously fishless headwater stream... - 2006, Graeme Harris, Nigel Milner, Sea Trout: Biology, Conservation and Management:
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *péysks Proto-Germanic *fiskaz Proto-West Germanic *fisk Old English fisċ Middle English fisch English fish Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English fishless From fish + -less.