barrens
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At several locations in the archipelago, this population boom was so intense that it led to extensive urchin barrens.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 12, 2025
The wild blueberry, which grows in the sprawling barrens of Maine’s rural east, is the state’s official berry and one of its most significant exports.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2023
But the rapid transformation of semirural areas into barrens of concrete tilt-up “logistic parks” is encountering a backlash.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2023
Narrow but well-worn paths weave through a landscape of heath and coastal barrens, a colorful carpet of wildflowers and evergreens made into dwarf-like shrubs by constant exposure to salt spray and wind.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 13, 2022
It worked again and again, his own iron fact, in alleys and pine barrens and swamps.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
