Definition of barren

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Barren (n.) 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..

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Foodless :: Foodless (a.) Without food; barren.
Barren :: Barren (a.) Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; -- said of women and female animals.
Teemless :: Teemless (a.) Not fruitful or prolific; barren; as, a teemless earth..
Wit-starved :: Wit-starved (a.) Barren of wit; destitute of genius.
Effete :: Effete (a.) No longer capable of producing young, as an animal, or fruit, as the earth; hence, worn out with age; exhausted of energy; incapable of efficient action; no longer productive; barren; sterile..
Unfruitful :: Unfruitful (a.) Not producing fruit or offspring; unproductive; infertile; barren; sterile; as, an unfruitful tree or animal; unfruitful soil; an unfruitful life or effort..
Barren :: Barren (n.) A tract of barren land.
Hungry :: Hungry (superl.) Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved; as, a hungry soil..
Branchless :: Branchless (a.) Destitute of branches or shoots; without any valuable product; barren; naked.
Inhospitable :: Inhospitable (a.) Affording no shelter or sustenance; barren; desert; bleak; cheerless; wild.
Impotent :: Impotent (a.) Wanting the power of procreation; unable to copulate; also, sometimes, sterile; barren..
Bad Lands :: Bad lands () Barren regions, especially in the western United States, where horizontal strata (Tertiary deposits) have been often eroded into fantastic forms, and much intersected by ca–ons, and where lack of wood, water, and forage increases the difficulty of traversing the country, whence the name, first given by the Canadian French, Mauvaises Terres (bad lands)..
Barren :: Barren (a.) Mentally dull; stupid.
Lean :: Lean (v. i.) Wanting fullness, richness, sufficiency, or productiveness; deficient in quality or contents; slender; scant; barren; bare; mean; -- used literally and figuratively; as, the lean harvest; a lean purse; a lean discourse; lean wages..
Bear :: Bear (v. i.) To produce, as fruit; to be fruitful, in opposition to barrenness..
Barrenly :: Barrenly (adv.) Unfruitfully; unproductively.
Honeybee :: Honeybee (n.) Any bee of the genus Apis, which lives in communities and collects honey, esp. the common domesticated hive bee (Apis mellifica), the Italian bee (A. ligustica), and the Arabiab bee (A. fasciata). The two latter are by many entomologists considered only varieties of the common hive bee. Each swarm of bees consists of a large number of workers (barren females), with, ordinarily, one queen or fertile female, but in the swarming season several young queens, and a number of males or dr
Barren :: Barren (a.) Unproductive; fruitless; unprofitable; empty.
Infecundity :: Infecundity (n.) Want of fecundity or fruitfulness; barrenness; sterility; unproductiveness.
Infertility :: Infertility (n.) The state or quality of being infertile; unproductiveness; barrenness.
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