barren desert

  • 1barren — [[t]bæ̱rən[/t]] 1) ADJ GRADED A barren landscape is dry and bare, and has very few plants and no trees. ...the Tibetan landscape of high barren mountains. Ant: fertile 2) ADJ GRADED Barren land consists of soil that is so poor that plants cannot… …

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  • 2barren — bar|ren [ˈbærən] adj [Date: 1100 1200; : Old French; Origin: baraine] 1.) land or soil that is barren has no plants growing on it ▪ Thousands of years ago the surface was barren desert. 2.) old fashioned unable to produce children or baby animals …

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  • 3Barren Realms Elite — or BRE is a multi player bulletin board system strategy game. Barren Realms Elite is a 25 player strategic war game originally by Mehul Patel. The setting is in the future nuclear destruction has spread throughout the planet, and now only a vast… …

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  • 4desert — [adj] barren, uncultivated arid, bare, desolate, infertile, lonely, solitary, sterile, uninhabited, unproductive, untilled, waste, wild; concept 560 Ant. cultivated, fertile, productive desert [n] wasteland; dry area arid region, badland, barren …

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  • 5Desert — Des ert, a. [Cf. L. desertus, p. p. of deserere, and F. d[ e]sert. See 2d {Desert}.] Of or pertaining to a desert; forsaken; without life or cultivation; unproductive; waste; barren; wild; desolate; solitary; as, they landed on a desert island.… …

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  • 6Desert flora — Desert Des ert, a. [Cf. L. desertus, p. p. of deserere, and F. d[ e]sert. See 2d {Desert}.] Of or pertaining to a desert; forsaken; without life or cultivation; unproductive; waste; barren; wild; desolate; solitary; as, they landed on a desert… …

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  • 7Desert hare — Desert Des ert, a. [Cf. L. desertus, p. p. of deserere, and F. d[ e]sert. See 2d {Desert}.] Of or pertaining to a desert; forsaken; without life or cultivation; unproductive; waste; barren; wild; desolate; solitary; as, they landed on a desert… …

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  • 8Desert mouse — Desert Des ert, a. [Cf. L. desertus, p. p. of deserere, and F. d[ e]sert. See 2d {Desert}.] Of or pertaining to a desert; forsaken; without life or cultivation; unproductive; waste; barren; wild; desolate; solitary; as, they landed on a desert… …

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  • 9Desert — Des ert (d[e^]z [ e]rt), n. [F. d[ e]sert, L. desertum, from desertus solitary, desert, pp. of deserere to desert; de + serere to join together. See {Series}.] 1. A deserted or forsaken region; a barren tract incapable of supporting population,… …

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  • 10desert — desert1 [di zʉrt′] vt. [Fr déserter < LL desertare < desertus, pp. of L deserere, to desert, lit., to disjoin < de , from + serere, to join < IE base * ser , to join, place in a row > Gr eirein, to fasten in rows, L series] 1. to… …

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