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"barren lands"adjectiveproviding no shelter or sustenance
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"writing barren of insight"adjectivecompletely wanting or lacking
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"the barrens of central Africa"nounan uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivationtype of:
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"a barren woman"adjectivenot bearing offspring
Definition that contains barren
- pixie creeping evergreen shrub having narrow overlapping leaves and early white star-shaped flowers; of the pine barrens of New Jersey and the Carolinas
- badlands deeply eroded barren land
- badlands an eroded and barren region in southwestern South Dakota and northwestern Nebraska
- sterilization the act of making an organism barren or infertile (unable to reproduce)
- pixy creeping evergreen shrub having narrow overlapping leaves and early white star-shaped flowers; of the pine barrens of New Jersey and the Carolinas
- sterilisation the act of making an organism barren or infertile (unable to reproduce)
- yellow-eyed grass any of several rushlike plants, especially of the pine barrens of southern United States
- umbrella plant late blooming perennial plant of shale barrens of Virginia having flowers in flat-topped clusters
- orange milkwort bog plant of pine barrens of southeastern United States having spikes of irregular yellow-orange flowers
- foxtail grass ground pine thickly covered with bristly leaves; widely distributed in barren sandy or peaty moist coastal regions of eastern and southeastern United States