noun
- areas of land that are not fertile and cannot support much plant life
Usage: usually plural
Examples
- The explorers crossed miles of rocky barrens before finding water.
- Few animals can survive in the harsh barrens of the Arctic tundra.
- The drought turned the once-green fields into dusty barrens.
- Pine barrens are ecosystems with sandy soil and sparse vegetation.
- The mining operation left behind scarred barrens where nothing would grow.
- Caribou migrate across the northern barrens in search of food.