¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Barrens
1. barren [n] - See also: barren
Lexicographical Neighbors of Barrens
Literary usage of Barrens
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin by North Carolina Dept. of Conservation and Development, North Carolina Geological Survey (1883-1905), North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey (1894)
"The largest detached areas of pine barrens are the long ridge, lying to the south
of the ... SOILS OF THE PINE barrens. The soils are of almost pure sand, ..."
2. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1894)
"THE Pine barrens of New Jersey have long been renowned as a botanical collecting
ground, and the botanists of Philadelphia and vicinity take many excursions ..."
3. A History of Transportation in the Eastern Cotton Belt to 1860 by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (1908)
"The pine-barrens were a stretch of sandy, infertile, pine-grown country intervening
... The population in the barrens was sparse and self- sufficing, ..."
4. The Bahama Islands by George Burbank Shattuck (1905)
"THE BAHAMA ISLANDS PINE-BARREN FORMATIONS.—The pine-barrens of New Providence
may be divided into two distinct formations, the Wet-barrens and ..."
5. Cecil County by Maryland Geological Survey, George Burbank Shattuck, Florence Bascom, Edward Bennett Mathews, Clarence Wilbur Dorsey, Jay Allan Bonsteel, Oliver Lanard Fassig, Henry Albert Pressey, Louis Agricola Bauer, Hugh M. Curran, George Bishop Sudworth, Geologic (1902)
"The first type (Plate XXVI)—barrens Timber—is found on the poor gravel soils of
Elk Neck ... barrens TIMBER. This type of forest has an area of 20000 acres, ..."
6. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1908)
"across the pine-barrens from north to south in the fall of 1907. On October 6 I
traversed the pine-barrens of Islip in going from Smithtown to Babylon by ..."
7. Plant Life of Alabama: An Account of the Distribution, Modes of Association by Charles Mohr (1901)
"The herbaceous flora of these barrens exhibits the same want of variety as ...
As noticed on a single visit to the barrens between the forks of Cypress and ..."
8. Travels in North America, in the Years 1841-2: With Geological Observations by Charles Lyell (1845)
"Pine barrens of Virginia and North Carolina.—Railway Train stopped by Snow and
Ice.—The Great Dismal Swamp.—Soil formed entirely of Vegetable Matter. ..."
Other Resources:
Basque