BARREN
\bˈaɹən], \bˈaɹən], \b_ˈa_ɹ_ə_n]\
Definitions of BARREN
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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not fertile or productive; "a barren tree"; "soil too infertile to sustain real pasture"
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without offspring; "in some societies a barren woman is rejected by her tribesmen"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Mentally dull; stupid.
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A tract of barren land.
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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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Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; - said of women and female animals.
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Not producing vegetation, or useful vegetation; rile.
By Oddity Software
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Mentally dull; stupid.
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A tract of barren land.
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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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Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; - said of women and female animals.
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Not producing vegetation, or useful vegetation; rile.
By Noah Webster.
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A tract of barren land.
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Barrenness.
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Sterile; unproductive; dull.
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Barrenness.
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Incapable of bearing offspring: unfruitful: dull, stupid.
By Daniel Lyons
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Not producing young, or fruit, or ideas; unproductive; unfruitful; uninventive.
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Any unproductive tract of land; in the Western States of America, land, not unproductive, but partly prairie and partly covered with stunted trees. Barren flowers, either those which have stamens, but no pistils, or which have neither stamens nor pistils.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
