- an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert"
- 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"
- not bearing offspring; "a barren woman"; "learned early in his marriage that he was sterile"
- completely wanting or lacking; "writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning"
- (barrenness) the state (usually of a woman) of having no children or being unable to have children
- (barrenness) fruitlessness: the quality of yielding nothing of value
- (Barrenness) Infertility primarily refers to the biological inability of a person to contribute to conception. Infertility may also refer to the state of a woman who is unable to carry a pregnancy to full term. ...
- (The Barrens (It)) Derry, Maine is a fictional town and a part of Stephen King's fictional Maine topography, and, like Castle Rock, it has served as the setting for a number of his novels, novellas, and short stories. ...
- (The Barrens (Warcraft)) Warcraft is a franchise of video games, novels and other media originally created by Blizzard Entertainment.
- An area of low fertility and habitation, a desolate place; unable to bear children; sterile; of poor fertility, infertile; bleak
- (Barrenness) To get children, drink water in which has been cooked moss that has grown on the Temple walls (Palestine; Sch. v. 235).
- (Barrens) elevated lands or plains upon which grow small trees, but never timber.
- (The Barrens) The areas of a city unfit for life,including graveyards,abandoned buildings, industrial wastelands and areas of irreversible urban blight.
- (barrens) places that do not produce useful crops or fruits; places with poor soil; here, "pine barrens" are woods whose plants are chiefly or overwhelmingly pine trees.
- A broodmare who has had at least one foal, but is not pregnant.
- An area in which vegetation is sparse due to harsh or limiting growing conditions, such as those associated with shallow, infertile, rocky soil.
- An area of droughty, sandy soils dominated by grasses, sparsely inhabited by low shrubs and small trees.
- For a woman to be barren was accounted a severe punishment among the Jews (Gen 16:2; 30:1-23; Sa1 1:6, Sa1 1:27; Isa 47:9; Isa 49:21; Luk 1:25). Instances of barrenness are noticed (Gen 11:30; Gen 25:21; Gen 29:31; Jdg 13:2, Jdg 13:3; Luk 1:7, Luk 1:36).
- Describes a filly or mare which was bred during last breeding season but did not conceive.
- Unfruitful (not producing a seed or caryopsis) in grasses.
- hills and treacherous rapids—inhospitable natural environment; the poor area
- having little plant or animal life
- incapable of reproducing
- can not produce offspring or to be empty