barren
/ˈbæɹən/ noun C2- An area of low fertility and habitation, a desolate place.
- 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. · The pine barrens are a site lonely enough to suit any hermit.
Plural barrens
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“Good,” said he, as he went away; “this is a fruitful soil, and I feel certain that the seed sown will not be cast on barren ground.”
Then, almost before anybody realized it, spring had come; out in Avonlea the Mayflowers were peeping pinkly out on the sere barrens where snow-wreaths lingered; and the “mist of green” was on the woods and in the valleys.
Away up in the barrens, behind Mr.
It needed but this to complete the grim suggestiveness of the barren waste, the chilling wind, and the darkling sky.
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