anarthrous

1. (linguistics) Not having an article (especially of Greek nouns).Examples: "We have concluded that Paul does not distinguish between the arthrous and anarthrous use of nomos."; "Proper names are usually anarthrous (since they need no article to be definite), except in cases of anaphora"not-comparable

2. (linguistics) Not having a determiner.Examples: "Nouns indicating status often appear in anarthrous noun phrases, ie, as bare nouns."; "Meigret (1888), treats French P-D contractions as simple prepositions governing anarthrous objects. Associating determiners with NP, Abeillé et al. consider the determinerless objects to be instances of N'."not-comparable

3. (biology, of a limb) Not having joints.not-comparable

4. (biology, of an organism) Not having legs, wings, or other limbs.not-comparable