BARRENER
Etymology
Adjective
barrener
comparative form of barren
Noun
barrener (plural barreners)
A barren animal, one that cannot bear young.
Source: Wiktionary
BARREN
Bar"ren, a. Etym: [OE. barein, OF. brehaing, brehaigne, baraigne, F.
bréhaigne; of uncertain origin; cf. Arm. brékha, markha, sterile; LL.
brana a sterile mare, principally in Aquitanian and Spanish
documents; Bisc. barau, baru, fasting.]
1. Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; --
She was barren of children. Bp. Hall.
2. Not producing vegetation, or useful vegetation; "Barren mountain
tracts." Macaulay.
3. Unproductive; fruitless; unprofitable; empty.
Brilliant but barren reveries. Prescott.
Some schemes will appear barren of hints and matter. Swift.
4. Mentally dull; stupid. Shak. Barren flower, a flower which has
only stamens without a pistil, or which as neither stamens nor
pistils.
– Barren Grounds (Geog.), a vast tract in British America northward
of the forest regions.
– Barren Ground bear (Zoöl.), a peculiar bear, inhabiting the
Barren Grounds, now believed to be a variety of the brown bear of
Europe.
– Barren Ground caribou (Zoöl.), a small reindeer (Rangifer
Groenlandicus) peculiar to the Barren Grounds and Greenland.
Bar"ren, n.
1. A tract of barren land.
2. pl.
Definition: Elevated lands or plains on which grow small trees, but not
timber; as, pine barrens; oak barrens. They are not necessarily
sterile, and are often fertile. [Amer.] J. Pickering.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition