barrens
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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In these cases, intense grazing by urchins can strip seafloors of plant life, damaging marine habitats and creating so-called "urchin barrens."
From Science Daily ● Dec. 12, 2025
Interspersed with the woods are wild blueberry barrens.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 29, 2023
But the rapid transformation of semirural areas into barrens of concrete tilt-up “logistic parks” is encountering a backlash.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2023
Narrow but well-worn paths weave through a landscape of heath and coastal barrens, a colorful carpet of wildflowers and evergreens made into dwarf-like shrubs by constant exposure to salt spray and wind.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 13, 2022
Rather than the thick, unbroken, monumental snarl of trees imagined by Thoreau, the great eastern forest was an ecological kaleidoscope of garden plots, blackberry rambles, pine barrens, and spacious groves of chestnut, hickory, and oak.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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