(n) an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation, Syn. waste, wasteland, Example:the barrens of central Africa; the trackless wastes of the desert
[しんでん(P);あらた, shinden (P); arata] (n) (1) new rice field; newly developed rice field; (2) wasteland or marshland newly reclaimed as a rice field (Edo period); (P)#3502