barrens
Example Sentences
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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
But when wasting disease in effect wiped out their main predator, the sea urchins exploded in number, decimating kelp forests and transforming once-lush underwater habitats into so-called urchin barrens.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2025
Interspersed with the woods are wild blueberry barrens.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 29, 2023
The mass die-out allowed the sea urchin population to explode, and in 2021, satellite imagery showed that 95 percent of California’s kelp forests had been destroyed and replaced by carpets of sickly sea urchin barrens.
From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2022
On the fifth day, I knew I was doomed to wander in endless barrens till I died.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
