barren  /b'ærən/  /b'ɛrən/

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資料來源(1): pydict data [pydict]

  barren
  (a.)不育的,貧瘠的荒地

資料來源(2): Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]

  Barren \Bar"ren\, a. [OE. barein, OF. brehaing, fem. brehaigne,
     baraigne, F. br['e]haigne; of uncertain origin; cf. Arm.
     br['e]kha[~n], markha[~n], sterile; LL. brana a sterile mare,
     principally in Aquitanian and Spanish documents; Bisc. barau,
     baru, fasting.]
     1. Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young;
        sterile; -- said of women and female animals.
  
              She was barren of children.           --Bp. Hall.
  
     2. Not producing vegetation, or useful vegetation; ?rile.
        ``Barren mountain tracts.'' --Macaulay.
  
     3. Unproductive; fruitless; unprofitable; empty.
  
              Brilliant but barren reveries.        --Prescott.
  
              Some schemes will appear barren of hints and matter.
                                                    --Swift.
  
     4. Mentally dull; stupid. --Shak.
  
     {Barren flower}, a flower which has only stamens without a
        pistil, or which as neither stamens nor pistils.
  
     {Barren Grounds} (Geog.), a vast tract in British America
        northward of the forest regions.
  
     {Barren Ground bear} (Zo["o]l.), a peculiar bear, inhabiting
        the Barren Grounds, now believed to be a variety of the
        brown bear of Europe.
  
     {Barren Ground caribou} (Zo["o]l.), a small reindeer
        ({Rangifer Gr[oe]nlandicus}) peculiar to the Barren
        Grounds and Greenland.

資料來源(3): Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]

  Barren \Bar"ren\, n.
     1. A tract of barren land.
  
     2. pl. 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. [Amer.]
        --J. Pickering.

資料來源(4): WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]

  barren
       adj 1: 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" [syn: {bare}, {bleak}, {desolate}, {stark}]
       2: not bearing offspring; "a barren woman"; "learned early in
          his marriage that he was sterile"
       3: incapable of sustaining life; "the dead and barren Moon"
       n : an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation;
           "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of
           the desert" [syn: {waste}, {wasteland}]

資料來源(5): Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]

  Barren
     For a woman to be barren was accounted a severe punishment among
     the Jews (Gen. 16:2; 30:1-23; 1 Sam. 1:6, 27; Isa. 47:9; 49:21;
     Luke 1:25). Instances of barrenness are noticed (Gen. 11:30;
     25:21; 29:31; Judg. 13:2, 3; Luke 1:7, 36).