barren
has definitions from the field of geography
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[ adjective ] not fertile or productive
Synonyms Examples "a barren tree" "soil too infertile to sustain real pasture" Used in print (Leon Uris, Mila 8....)Beyond the forest all our paths merge into a single great highway which ends in the barren , eroded hills of Judea . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] without offspring
Synonyms Examples "in some societies a barren woman is rejected by her tribesmen" Used in print (Frieda Arkin, "The Light of the Sea," in The...)What hope lay_in the nephews , she asked the intensifying light out there , with one married to a barren woman and the other divorced , having sired two girl children , with none to bear_on the Packard name ? Related terms |
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[ adjective ] providing no shelter or sustenance
Examples "bare rocky hills" "barren lands" "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes" "the desolate surface of the moon" "a stark landscape" Related terms |
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 17461
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[ noun ] (geography) an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
Examples "the barrens of central Africa" "the trackless wastes of the desert" Related terms |
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