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Barren

/bˈærən/
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(adj) Not bearing children, childless; hence also unable to bear children, sterile.

The trees are barren or bear only small fruit.
He is barren of creative spirit.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The landscape was dry and ____, with very few plants growing there city.

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