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estéril • infecundo • infértil
Not bearing children, childless; hence also unable to bear children, sterile.
Forget not, in your speed, Antonius, To touch Calpurnia; for our elders say, The barren, touched in this holy chase, Shake off their sterile curse.
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?
estéril • infecundo • infértil
Of poor fertility, infertile; not producing vegetation; desert, waste.
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…
barren mountain tracts
infructuoso • yermo
Unproductive, fruitless, unprofitable; empty, hollow, vain.
A third is wroth: ‘Is this an hour For private sorrow’s barren song, When more and more the people throng The chairs and thrones of civil power?’
brilliant but barren reveries
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landa • páramo • yermo
An area of low fertility and habitation, a desolate place.
Sol squinted out over the barrens to where the mountains shimmered in the heat haze.
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