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an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert" incapable of sustaining life; "the dead and barren Moon" dead not bearing offspring; "a barren woman"; "learned early in his marriage that he was sterile" sterile 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" inhospitable |
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