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Meanings of barrenness in English

Portuguese
aridez
Catalan
esterilitat
Spanish
esterilidad

The quality of yielding nothing of value.

      aridez
      Usage of barrenness in English
      1
      They all preserve, however, the common characteristics of barrenness, inhospitality, and misery.
      Sherlock holmes: the complete illustrated novels
      2
      The immediate impression that the boys received was one of cave-like barrenness.
      The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure
      3
      But the simplicity must not be barrenness nor the bright colour gaudy.
      Essays and Lectures
      4
      After the barrenness of the desert, vegetation was now resuming its empire.
      Five Weeks in a Balloon / Or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa...
      5
      So they rattled away through the barrenness and drew near to Nogales.
      Jean of the Lazy A
      6
      She suppressed a shudder at the smallness and barrenness of the place.
      The Assistant
      7
      For they are like trees pruned and trained into ugliness and barrenness.
      The Recreations of a Country Parson
      8
      She has no barrenness, no unsightliness, no poverty; everywhere beauty, everywhere riches.
      Bits about Home Matters
      9
      Then upon the earth did there come dearth and drought and barrenness.
      A Book of Myths
      10
      Mule, an intelligent; fable of, laden with salt; barrenness of the.
      Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies
      11
      The fourth Paradise in its almost indescribable barrenness was that of the wolves.
      Romance of the Rabbit
      12
      In the heath's barrenness to the farmer lay its fertility to the historian.
      The Return of the Native
      13
      The barrenness of the Causses arises, as will be seen, from natural causes.
      The Roof of France; Or, the Causses of the Lozère
      14
      A frequent cause of barrenness is stricture of the neck of the uterus.
      The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English / or,...
      15
      By noon their water was gone and they sat studying the barrenness about.
      Blood Meridian
      16
      Nature seemed to try to conceal the barrenness of the spot with beauty.
      The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 1, January, 1884
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      Portuguese
      aridez
      Barrenness through the time
      Barrenness across language varieties
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