"Acarpous" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 645. waste, desert, Sahara, wild, wilderness, howling wilderness. V. be unproductive &c adj.; hang fire, flash in the pan, come to nothing. [make unproductive] sterilize, addle; disable, inactivate. Adj. unproductive, acarpous^, inoperative, barren, addled, infertile, unfertile, unprolific^, arid, sterile, unfruitful, infecund^; sine prole; fallow; teemless^, issueless^, fruitless; unprofitable &c (useless) 645; null ...
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