See barren in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"name": "inh"
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"text": "I silently wept as my daughter's husband rejected her. What would she do now that she was no longer a maiden but also barren?",
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"ref": "1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):",
"text": "Forget not, in your speed, Antonius,\nTo touch Calpurnia; for our elders say,\nThe barren, touched in this holy chase,\nShake off their sterile curse.",
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"ref": "2014 December 23, Olivia Judson, “The hemiparasite season [print version: Under the hemiparasite, International New York Times, 24–25 December 2014, p. 7]”, in The New York Times:",
"text": "The druids […] believed that mistletoe could make barren animals fecund, and that it was an antidote to all poisons.",
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"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "ամուլ"
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"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "sonsuz"
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"word": "qısır"
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"code": "eu",
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"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "antzu"
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"code": "be",
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"roman": "njaplódny",
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"word": "няпло́дны"
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"note": "of soil",
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"word": "я́лавы"
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"roman": "bezploden",
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"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
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"word": "neplodný"
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"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "onvruchtbaar"
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"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "hedelmätön"
},
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"word": "steriili"
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"word": "maho"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
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"word": "seasc"
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"word": "不妊の"
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"word": "قیصیر"
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"word": "estéril"
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"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "infértil"
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"word": "беспло́дный"
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"note": "of soil",
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"_dis1": "76 1 4 4 3 12 2",
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"word": "eild"
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"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "aimrid"
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"word": "neplodný"
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"word": "kumil"
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"word": "เป็นหมัน"
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"ref": "1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 1, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:",
"text": "barren mountain tracts",
"type": "quote"
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"ref": "2009, Y.J. Zhu, “Taklamakan Desert Moon Ride”, in Lucy McCauley, editor, The Best Women's Travel Writing 2009: True Stories from Around the World (Travelers' Tales), →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, →OL, page 154:",
"text": "We have descended Tian Shan and entered the Taklamakan Desert, a barren landscape painted in ecru—no shrubs, no grass, only waves upon waves of naked ridges the color of buff, the highest few spotted with white specks of snow.",
"type": "quote"
},
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"ref": "2014 December 23, Olivia Judson, “The hemiparasite season [print version: Under the hemiparasite, International New York Times, 24–25 December 2014, p. 7]”, in The New York Times:",
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"ref": "1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 1, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:",
"text": "barren mountain tracts",
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{
"ref": "2009, Y.J. Zhu, “Taklamakan Desert Moon Ride”, in Lucy McCauley, editor, The Best Women's Travel Writing 2009: True Stories from Around the World (Travelers' Tales), →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, →OL, page 154:",
"text": "We have descended Tian Shan and entered the Taklamakan Desert, a barren landscape painted in ecru—no shrubs, no grass, only waves upon waves of naked ridges the color of buff, the highest few spotted with white specks of snow.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Technology: Terraforming Codex entry:",
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"text": "August 28, 1731, Jonathan Swift, letter to John Gay\nBut schemes are perfectly accidental. Some will appear barren of hints and matter, but prove to be fruitful."
}
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"ref": "1922, Michael Arlen, “Epilogue Chapter IV”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, section 2:",
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"ref": "1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XXI, page 35:",
"text": "A third is wroth: ‘Is this an hour\nFor private sorrow’s barren song,\nWhen more and more the people throng\nThe chairs and thrones of civil power?’",
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{
"ref": "1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 270:",
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"ref": "2011 September 2, Phil McNulty, “Bulgaria 0-3 England”, in BBC:",
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"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "2024 March 20, Ben Jones, “Suppliers' uncertain wait for new trains”, in RAIL, number 1005, page 36:",
"text": "As the glut of new orders placed in the optimistic pre-pandemic years (worth billions of pounds) reaches its conclusion, production lines in Newton Aycliffe, Derby and Newport face a potentially barren future - as well as job losses that will be devastating for their communities and supply chains.",
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"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "amul",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "ամուլ"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "čʻber",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "չբեր"
},
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "sonsuz"
},
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"note": "of animals",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "qısır"
},
{
"code": "eu",
"lang": "Basque",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "antzu"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "njaplódny",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "няпло́дны"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"note": "of soil",
"roman": "jálavy",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"tags": [
"also"
],
"word": "я́лавы"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "bezploden",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "безплоден"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "jalov",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "ялов"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "neplodný"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "onvruchtbaar"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "steriel"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "malfekunda"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "aher"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "hedelmätön"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "steriili"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "maho"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "stérile"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "steril"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "unfruchtbar"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "stérfos",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "στέρφος"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "ákarpos",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "άκαρπος"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "steíros",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "στείρος"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "steîros",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "στεῖρος"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "meddő"
},
{
"code": "ia",
"lang": "Interlingua",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "sterile"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "seasc"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "sterile"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "infertile"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "funin no",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "不妊の"
},
{
"code": "ckb",
"lang": "Central Kurdish",
"roman": "bêber",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "بێبەر"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "sterilis"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "neploden",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "неплоден"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"note": "of soil",
"roman": "jalov",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "јалов"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "mandul"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "pākoko"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "pukupā"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "wharepā"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "matapā"
},
{
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "bareyne"
},
{
"code": "nah",
"lang": "Nahuatl",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "tetzacatl"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "kısır",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "قیصیر"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "bībar",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"tags": [
"singular"
],
"word": "بیبر"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
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"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "سترون"
},
{
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "fooss"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "bezpłodny"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "niepłodny"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "estéril"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "infértil"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"neuter"
],
"word": "nefertil"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "sterilă"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "sterp"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "besplódnyj",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "беспло́дный"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"note": "of soil",
"roman": "jálovyj",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"tags": [
"also"
],
"word": "я́ловый"
},
{
"code": "sco",
"lang": "Scots",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "eild"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "aimrid"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "fàsaichte"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "seasg"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "ја̏лов"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"tags": [
"Roman"
],
"word": "jȁlov"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "neplodný"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "jalov"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "estéril"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "infértil"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "kumil"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "เป็นหมัน"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "bezplídnyj",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "безплі́дний"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "neplídnyj",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"word": "неплі́дний"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"note": "of soil",
"roman": "jálovyj",
"sense": "unable to bear children; sterile",
"tags": [
"also"
],
"word": "я́ловий"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "anptġaber",
"sense": "infertile",
"word": "անպտղաբեր"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "amul",
"sense": "infertile",
"word": "ամուլ"
},
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "infertile",
"word": "məshulsuz"
},
{
"code": "eu",
"lang": "Basque",
"sense": "infertile",
"word": "antzu"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "neplodoroden",
"sense": "infertile",
"word": "неплодороден"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "pínjí",
"sense": "infertile",
"word": "贫瘠"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "infertile",
"word": "malfekunda"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "infertile",
"word": "karu"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "infertile",
"word": "hedelmätön"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "infertile",
"word": "unfruchtbar"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "infertile",
"word": "dürr"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "infertile",
"word": "karg"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "ákarpos",
"sense": "infertile",
"word": "άκαρπος"
},
{
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "infertile",
"word": "terméketlen"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "infertile",
"word": "tandus"
},
{
"code": "ia",
"lang": "Interlingua",
"sense": "infertile",
"word": "infertile"
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{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "infertile",
"word": "ocrach"
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{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "infertile",
"word": "seasc"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "infertile",
"word": "sterile"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "infertile",
"word": "infruttifero"
},
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"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "fumō na",
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"word": "不毛な"
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"code": "ckb",
"lang": "Central Kurdish",
"roman": "bêber",
"sense": "infertile",
"word": "بێبەر"
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"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "infertile",
"word": "sterilis"
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{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "infertile",
"word": "hahore"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "infertile",
"word": "tohetea"
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{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "infertile",
"word": "hūiki"
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{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "infertile",
"word": "pāhoahoa"
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{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "infertile",
"word": "tītōhea"
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{
"code": "enm",
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{
"code": "nah",
"lang": "Nahuatl",
"sense": "infertile",
"word": "tetzacatl"
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{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
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"word": "قیصیر"
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"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "çöl",
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"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "bībar",
"sense": "infertile",
"tags": [
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{
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "infertile",
"word": "fooss"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "infertile",
"word": "bezpłodny"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "infertile",
"word": "jałowy"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "infertile",
"word": "estéril"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "infertile",
"word": "infértil"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "infertile",
"word": "árido"
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"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "infertile",
"word": "arid"
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"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "infertile",
"word": "sterp"
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"sense": "infertile",
"word": "беспло́дный"
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"roman": "neplodoródnyj",
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"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "infertile",
"word": "aimrid"
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{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "infertile",
"word": "fàsaichte"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "infertile",
"word": "seasg"
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"code": "sh",
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"code": "sh",
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"code": "sl",
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"sense": "infertile",
"word": "jalov"
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{
"code": "es",
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"sense": "infertile",
"word": "estéril"
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{
"code": "es",
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"sense": "infertile",
"word": "infértil"
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"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "infertile",
"word": "karg"
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "infertile",
"word": "ofruktbar"
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"code": "th",
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"roman": "gan-daan",
"sense": "infertile",
"word": "กันดาร"
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"code": "cmn",
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"roman": "huāngwú",
"sense": "bleak",
"word": "荒芜"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "bleak",
"word": "ausgetrocknet"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "bleak",
"word": "vertrocknet"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "bleak",
"word": "trocken"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "bleak",
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{
"code": "de",
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"sense": "bleak",
"word": "kahl"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "bleak",
"word": "ausgedörrt"
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{
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"word": "karg"
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"code": "got",
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"code": "sh",
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"code": "eo",
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"code": "mi",
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"word": "tūpā"
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"word": "urchin barren"
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"ref": "1990, Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion, 1st edition, New York: Doubleday, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 165:",
"text": "Sol squinted out over the barrens to where the mountains shimmered in the heat haze.",
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"text": "The pine barrens are a site lonely enough to suit any hermit.",
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"ref": "1971 [1766], Averil M. Lysaght, Joseph Banks in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1766: His Diary, Manuscripts, and Collections, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 121:",
"text": "Snow Lies now four & five feet deep upon the Ground & the Air looks so Hazey that we think it Prudent to Return upon the Rocks & Barrens (for so they Call the Places where Wood does not Grow) we find that the wind had drifted the Snow Very thin Here we observe Some few Plants (1) Fir Moss, *Lycopodium Selago, (2) Rhein Deer Moss, Lichen Rangiferinus [Cladonia sp.], (3) A Kind of Horned Liverwort, Lichen, (4) a Plant that has very much the Appearance of Crow Berries, Empetrum [*Empetrum nigrum L.] of which I have only got the female which has 10 Stigmata.",
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"ref": "1968 (originally written: 1794), Aaron Thomas, The Newfoundland Journal of Aaron Thomas, page 104",
"text": "Here it was now, by the side of a Swamp in the Barrens of Newfoundland, threadbare, wet, dirty."
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"ref": "1819, Lewis Amadeus Anspach, A History of the Island of Newfoundland: Containing a Description of the Island, the Banks, the Fisheries and Trade of Newfoundland and the Coast of Labrador, page 294:",
"text": "What is known of it consists of a rocky and barren soil, steep hills covered with bad wood, some narrow and sandy valleys, extensive plains covered either with heath, or with rocky surfaces, more or less extensive, where not a tree or shrub is to be seen, and which are from thence usually called Barrens.",
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"ref": "1843, Joseph Beete Jukes, General Report of the Geological Survey of Newfoundland: Executed Under the Direction of the Government and Legislature of the Colony During the Years 1839 and 1840, page 22:",
"text": "The 'barrens' of Newfoundland are those districts which occupy the summits of the hills and ridges, and other elevated and exposed tracts. They are covered with a thin and scrubby vegetation, consisting of berry-bearing plants and dwarf bushes of various species, and are somewhat similar in appearance to the moorlands of the north of England, differing only in the kind of vegetation.",
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"ref": "1879, Littell's Living Age, page 362:",
"text": "In Newfound-land there are barrens of many miles in extent, high, and, comparatively speaking, dry plateaus; but the barrens in the provinces I am speaking of vary from a little open space of a few acres to a plain of five or six miles[…]",
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"ref": "1897, Moses Harvey, Newfoundland in 1897, page 150:",
"text": "The 'barrens' are covered with a rich carpet of moss of every shade and colour, and abound in all sorts of wild berries, pleasing both to the eye and taste.",
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"ref": "1907, Charles Wendell Townsend, Glover Morrill Allen, Birds of Labrador, page 282:",
"text": "[...] the Arctic strip extends from the exposed coasts of the outer islands, in onto the mainland for from one to three or four miles as a practically unbroken \"barren,\" sprinkled with lichen-covered ledges and carpeted with turf of reindeer lichen, sphagnum, Empetrum, sedges, creeping willows, and various other species of herbaceous plants, including the following, kindly determined for us by Dr. B. L. Robinson of the Gray herbarium[…]",
"type": "quote"
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"ref": "1947, Väinö Tanner, Outlines of the Geography, Life & Customs of Newfoundland-Labrador, page 348:",
"text": "No pan is more rugged and inhospitable than these 'barrens,' the vast rolling plateaux of the interior, broken by stunted groups of wind-tom trees Only at the plateaux' edges.",
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"ref": "1976, Bernard S. Jackson (Entomologist), Butterflies of Oxen Pond Botanic Park: Their Conservation and Management, page 36:",
"text": "Habitat: Bogs, Heaths (known as 'Barrens' in Newfoundland) and rough meadows near boglands. Range In the eastern area: Manitoba eastward; including northern Minnesota to Newfoundland (A.B. Klots).",
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "pustoš",
"sense": "area of low fertility and habitation, a desolate place",
"word": "пустош"
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"sense": "area of low fertility and habitation, a desolate place",
"tags": [
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"word": "Ödland"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "area of low fertility and habitation, a desolate place",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "Öde"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "area of low fertility and habitation, a desolate place",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"word": "Kargland"
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"sense": "area of low fertility and habitation, a desolate place",
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"word": "пу́стош"
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "area of low fertility and habitation, a desolate place",
"word": "rake"
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"code": "mi",
"english": "refers to a place at higher altitude",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "area of low fertility and habitation, a desolate place",
"word": "hūnua"
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"code": "mi",
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"sense": "area of low fertility and habitation, a desolate place",
"word": "pāhoahoa"
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{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "area of low fertility and habitation, a desolate place",
"word": "akeake"
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{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "area of low fertility and habitation, a desolate place",
"word": "tuakau"
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{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "area of low fertility and habitation, a desolate place",
"word": "tītōhea"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "area of low fertility and habitation, a desolate place",
"word": "pustkowie"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pústošʹ",
"sense": "area of low fertility and habitation, a desolate place",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "пу́стошь"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "area of low fertility and habitation, a desolate place",
"word": "pustoš"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "area of low fertility and habitation, a desolate place",
"tags": [
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"word": "jalovišče"
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "area of low fertility and habitation, a desolate place",
"word": "ödemark"
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