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Barren :: Barren (n.) Elevated lands or plains on which grow small trees, but not timber; as, pine barrens; oak barrens. They are not necessarily sterile, and are often fertile..

Sterilized :: Sterilization (n.) The act or process of sterilizing, or rendering sterile; also, the state of being sterile..

Abortive :: Abortive (v.) Imperfectly formed or developed; rudimentary; sterile; as, an abortive organ, stamen, ovule, etc..

Impotent :: Impotent (a.) Wanting the power of procreation; unable to copulate; also, sometimes, sterile; barren..

Sterility :: Sterile (a.) Fig.: Barren of ideas; destitute of sentiment; as, a sterile production or author..

Sterilization :: Sterility (n.) Quality of being sterile; infecundity; also, the state of being free from germs or spores..

Lepal :: Lepal (n.) A sterile transformed stamen.

Sterile :: Sterile (a.) Incapable of reproduction; unfitted for reproduction of offspring; not able to germinate or bear fruit; unfruitful; as, a sterile flower, which bears only stamens..

Aborted :: Aborted (a.) Rendered abortive or sterile; undeveloped; checked in normal development at a very early stage; as, spines are aborted branches..

Infertile :: Infertile (a.) Not fertile; not productive; barren; sterile; as, an infertile soil..

Poor :: Poor (superl.) Destitute of fertility; exhausted; barren; sterile; -- said of land; as, poor soil..

Effete :: Effete (a.) No longer capable of producing young, as an animal, or fruit, as the earth; hence, worn out with age; exhausted of energy; incapable of efficient action; no longer productive; barren; sterile..

Sterility :: Sterility (n.) The quality or condition of being sterile.

Dysgenesis :: Dysgenesis (n.) A condition of not generating or breeding freely; infertility; a form homogenesis in which the hybrids are sterile among themselves, but are fertile with members of either parent race..

Barren :: Barren (a.) Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; -- said of women and female animals.

Sterile :: Sterile (a.) Free from reproductive spores or germs; as, a sterile fluid..

Sterilize :: Sterilize (v. t.) To make sterile or unproductive; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility..

Inantherate :: Inantherate (a.) Not bearing anthers; -- said of sterile stamens.

Impoverish :: Impoverish (v. t.) To exhaust the strength, richness, or fertility of; to make sterile; as, to impoverish land..

Abort :: Abort (v. i.) To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to become sterile..

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