barren
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adj (English)
1. (of people and animals, not comparable) Not bearing children, childless; hence also unable to bear children, sterile.Examples: "I silently wept as my daughter's husband rejected her. What would she do now that she was no longer a maiden but also barren?"; "Forget not, in your speed, Antonius, To touch Calpurnia; for our elders say, The barren, touched in this holy chase, Shake off their sterile curse."; "The druids […] believed that mistletoe could make barren animals fecund, and that it was an antidote to all poisons."not-comparable
2. (of plants, not comparable) Not bearing seed or fruit.not-comparable
3. (of places) Of poor fertility, infertile; not producing vegetation; desert, waste.Examples: "barren mountain tracts"; "We have descended Tian Shan and entered the Taklamakan Desert, a barren landscape painted in ecru—no shrubs, no grass, only waves upon waves of naked ridges the color of buff, the highest few spotted with white specks of snow."; "Terraforming even a barren planet often involves significant financial and ethical hurdles."
4. (with of) Devoid, lacking.Examples: "August 28, 1731, Jonathan Swift, letter to John Gay But schemes are perfectly accidental. Some will appear barren of hints and matter, but prove to be fruitful."with-of
noun (English)
1. (usually in the plural) In particular, a usually elevated and flat expanse of land that only supports the growth of small trees and shrubs, and sometimes mosses or heathers, berries, and other marshy or moory vegetation, but little agriculture and few people.Examples: "The pine barrens are a site lonely enough to suit any hermit."; "Snow Lies now four & five feet deep upon the Ground & the Air looks so Hazey that we think it Prudent to Return upon the Rocks & Barrens (for so they Call the Places where Wood does not Grow) we find that the wind had drifted the Snow Very thin Here we observe Some few Plants (1) Fir Moss, *Lycopodium Selago, (2) Rhein Deer Moss, Lichen Rangiferinus [Cladonia sp.], (3) A Kind of Horned Liverwort, Lichen, (4) a Plant that has very much the Appearance of Crow Berries, Empetrum [*Empetrum nigrum L.] of which I have only got the female which has 10 Stigmata."; "Here it was now, by the side of a Swamp in the Barrens of Newfoundland, threadbare, wet, dirty."plural-normally
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