barren : Idioms & Phrases

• a flower which has only stamens without a pistil, or which as neither stamens nor pistils.

Webster 1913

• (Zoöl.), a peculiar bear, inhabiting the Barren Grounds, now believed to be a variety of the brown bear of Europe.

Webster 1913

• noun of tundra of northern Canada; in some classifications included in the species Rangifer tarandus
  Rangifer arcticus.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a small reindeer (Rangifer Groenlandicus) peculiar to the Barren Grounds and Greenland.

Webster 1913

• (Geog.), a vast tract in British America northward of the forest regions.

Webster 1913

• a tract of infertile land which is covered with pines. Southern U.S.

Webster 1913

• noun deep-rooted perennial of southeastern United States
  Arenaria caroliniana; longroot.
  

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