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n. (plural of barren English)
Wikipedia
Barrens may refer to:
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Pine barrens, a type of ecosystem found in the Northeastern United States
- Pine Barrens (New Jersey), a pine barren in the state of New Jersey
- List of pine barrens which includes some other locations called "Pine Barrens" or "Barrens"
- Serpentine barrens, a grassland or savanna ecosystem in which toxic metals in the soil from minerals of the serpentine group inhibit the growth of many plants
- Urchin barrens, where the proliferation of sea urchins has caused a massive kelp die-off
The Barrens may refer to:
- the Tundra of northern Canada, sometimes specific to the Tundra of Northern Manitoba as referenced in the 1956 book Lost in the Barrens by Farley Mowat. Also called 'Barren Lands'.
- a location in the Warcraft Universe
- a novel by F. Paul Wilson
- a novel by Joyce Carol Oates
- The Barrens (It), a location in the novel It by Stephen King
- The Barrens (film), a 2012 American horror film written and directed by Darren Lynn Bousman and starring Stephen Moyer and Mia Kirshner
Usage examples of "barrens".
Black Barrens, our cities occupied by dry rot and worms, and our descendants the pets of lizards.
Black Barrens where, through some ancient wizardry, or more likely radiation poisoning, the land is as sterile as an operating theater.
Over to the north and east, among the foothills of the mountains that ringed the Yards and separated them from the Barrens, the houses of the Technos -- as the technical elite were now called by the People -- were being built, looking down from their rugged heights upon the vast ship that was taking shape under their direction.
As they reached the crest of the hill, the wind off the barrens began blowing in earnest, and Zacharias was pleased to imitate the Jinna hirelings by covering his mouth and nose with cloth to keep out the dust.
And these are familiar matters to us, who know how Witchbreed travelled between their many lands riding the air, we who know what weapons devastated the Barrens, we who know the legacy of desolation left to us.
We made our descent at that time when it is winter on the Barrens, but still autumn below in the Southland.
The moss and rock of the Barrens were part of my mental landscape now.
The ghost of the Barrens hung over Shiriya-Shenin, and what I had learned of past-memories came sharply back to me.
I thought of cold aKirrik in the Barrens, Kasabaarde on the searing equator.
They guard one of the great passes down from the Barrens, the Path of Skulls.