Barren primarily refers to a state of barrenness (
infertility
Infertility is the inability of a person, animal or plant to reproduce by natural means. It is usually not the natural state of a healthy adult, except notably among certain eusocial species (mostly haplodiploid insects). It is the normal state ...
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Barren may also refer to:
Places
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Barren, Missouri Barren is an extinct town in southern Carter County, in the Ozarks of southeastern Missouri, United States. The community was located on the banks of Big Barren Creek, (a tributary of the Current River) just north of the Carter - Ripley county l ...
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Barren County, Kentucky
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Barren Island (Andaman Islands)
Barren Island is an island located in the Andaman Sea. It is the only confirmed active volcano in the Indian subcontinent, and the only active volcano along a chain of volcanoes from Sumatra to Myanmar. It is a part of the Indian Union territor ...
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Barren Island, Brooklyn
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Barren River Lake
Barren River Lake is a , reservoir in Kentucky created by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1964 by impounding the Barren River. The lake occupies parts of Allen, Barren, and Monroe counties.
The Barren River Lake Dam is an earthen dam, 146 fe ...
Other uses
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''Barren County'' (album)
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Barren County Progress
The ''Barren County Progress'' is a weekly newspaper serving Barren County, Kentucky, including the cities of Cave City, Park City, and Glasgow. Headquartered in Glasgow, the newspaper is owned by Jobe Publishing, Inc. The Progress is printed in ...
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Barren Realms Elite
In a bulletin board system (BBS), a door is an interface between the BBS software and an external application. The term is also used to refer to the external application, a computer program that runs outside of the main bulletin board program. Som ...
(game)
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Barren strawberry Barren strawberry is a common name for several plants which may refer to:
* ''Potentilla'', or in particular ''Potentilla sterilis'', native to Europe
* ''Waldsteinia fragarioides
''Waldsteinia fragarioides'' ( syn. ''Dalibarda fragarioides'' ...
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Barren vegetation
Barren vegetation describes an area of land where plant growth may be sparse, stunted, and/or contain limited biodiversity. Environmental conditions such as toxic or infertile soil, high winds, coastal salt-spray, and climatic conditions are of ...
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Cape Barren goose
See also
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Baron
Baron is a rank of nobility or title of honour, often hereditary, in various European countries, either current or historical. The female equivalent is baroness. Typically, the title denotes an aristocrat who ranks higher than a lord or knig ...
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Barren Ground (disambiguation)
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Barrens (disambiguation)
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