BARREN

An Illustrated Encyclopaedic Medical Dictionary · 1891 · p. 3

adj. Ba*’re’n, O. E., barre in. O. Fr., baraigne. Norm. Fr., bare in. Gr., oreipos. Lat., sterilis, Fr., stérile, Ger, unfruchtbar. Unfruitful, incapable of procreation; of flowers, henge stamens but no pistil, or neither stamens nor pistil. [L, 56,