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Nothing grows here, which is exactly why everything that does becomes legend.
means Describing land too poor or harsh to support plant life, or by extension anything unproductive, empty, or unable to bear fruit or offspring.
from From Old French 'baraigne' or 'brehaigne,' meaning sterile or infertile, which entered English in the medieval period. The deeper root is uncertain — possibly Celtic — but the word arrived already wearing its bleakness, first applied to women and animals that bore no young, then spreading to fruitless fields and ideas.
- word origin
- From Old French, once meaning a sterile, unfruitful woman
- desert life
- Barren-looking sand hides seeds waiting decades for rain
- space
- Mars looks barren, yet may hide buried microbial fossils
- deep sea
- Barren abyssal plains erupt with life around hydrothermal vents
- barrens biome
- Pine barrens depend on fire to survive and reseed
atacama desert — driest non-polar place on earth, some weather stations have never recorded rain in 400+ years
gobi desert — covers 500,000 sq miles across mongolia and china with minimal vegetation
death valley — lowest point in north america at 282 feet below sea level, receives under 2 inches rain yearly