| barren | 1. A tract of barren land. 2. Elevated lands or plains on which grow small trees, but not timber; as, pine barrens; oak barrens. They are not necessarily sterile, and are often fertile. 1. Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; aid of women and female animals. "She was barren of children." (Bp. Hall) 2. Not producing vegetation, or useful vegetation; rile. "Barren mountain tracts." 3. Unproductive; fruitless; unprofitable; empty. "Brilliant but barren reveries." (Prescott) "Some schemes will appear barren of hints and matter." (Swift) 4. Mentally dull; stupid. Barren flower, a flower which has only stamens without a pistil, or which as neither stamens nor pistils. <geography> Barren Grounds, a vast tract in British America northward of the forest regions. <zoology> Barren Ground bear, a small reindeer (Rangifer Groenlandicus) peculiar to the Barren Grounds and Greenland. Origin: OE. Barein, OF. Brehaing, em. Brehaigne, baraigne, F. Brehaigne; of uncertain origin; cf. Arm. Brekha, markha, sterile; LL. Brana a sterile mare, principally in Aquitanian and Spanish documents; Bisc. Barau, baru, fasting. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| barrenly | Unfruitfully; unproductively. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| barrenwort | <botany> An herbaceous plant of the Barberry family (Epimedium alpinum), having leaves that are bitter and said to be sudorific. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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bare: providing no shelter or sustenance; "bare rocky hills"; "barren lands"; "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"; "the desolate surface of the moon"; "a stark landscape" completely wanting or lacking; "writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "a novel devoid of wit and inventiveness"; "a life empty of happiness"; "innocent of literary merit"; "void of understanding" not bearing offspring; "a barren woman"; "learned early in his marriage that he was sterile" incapable of sustaining life; "the dead and barren Moon" an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert"
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a forest ecosystem dominated by scrubby tree growth, dry soils, and woody shrubs.
Ãâó: https://www.uwsp.edu/natres/nres743/Glossary.htm
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Said of rock or vein material containing no minerals of value, and of strata without coal, or containing coal in seams too thin to be workable.
Ãâó: www.digistar.mb.ca/minsci/terms/termsb.htm
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(Bromus Sterilis) A grass weed which is commonly found in hedge bottoms but can be difficult to control if it invades a crop. Recognisable by it's green/purple drooping flowers and seed heads.
Ãâó: www.lethamshank.co.uk/glossary/glossary.php
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Lava and other rock
Ãâó: biosys.bre.orst.edu/restore/classe_%20definitions....
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| barren | an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation |
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| barren | incapable of sustaining life |
| barren | not bearing offspring |
| barren | not fertile or productive |
| barren | without offspring |
| barren | providing no shelter or sustenance |
| barren | of tundra of northern Canada |
| barren | completely wanting or lacking |
| barren | a condition yielding nothing of value |
| barren | the state (usually of a woman) of having no children or being unable to have children |
| barren | slow-growing creeping plant with semi-evergreen leaves on erect wiry stems |
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