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Barren(s) 
n. (usually plural) the inhospitable tundra, of northern Canada.
See also: Barren Ground(s) tundra
- 1896 None but the younger and hardiest and most experienced Indians go into the Barrens, and to be a musk-ox hunter is their highest conception of courage and skill and endurance.
- 1961 Skeleton track [was laid] across the "Barrens" to Churchill, spring 1929. . . .
- 1896 None but the younger and hardiest and most experienced Indians go into the Barrens, and to be a musk-ox hunter is their highest conception of courage and skill and endurance.