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.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 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 William R. Warner
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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