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- adjective Without
pips (seeds in fruit).
Etymologies
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Examples
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Space was clear, so to hell with sitting and looking at a blank, green, pipless line.
The Martian Way Asimov, Isaac, 1920- 1955
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In the usual fashion (I ought rather to say, in what was then the usual fashion), the offices and house-serfs 'huts surrounded the manorial house on all sides, and the garden was close to it -- a small garden, but containing fine fruit-trees, juicy apples, and pipless pears.
A Desperate Character and Other Stories Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 1850
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In the usual fashion (I ought rather to say, in what was then the usual fashion), the offices and house-serfs’ huts surrounded the manorial house on all sides, and the garden was close to it — a small garden, but containing fine fruit-trees, juicy apples, and pipless pears.
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