Of trees or plants: Without fruit or seed. (Sometimes specifically, as in Barren Strawberry, a strawberry-like plant bearing only a dry seed.)

Barren; not bearing flowers or fruit.

Not bearing fruit: unfruitful, barren.

Of a plant: Not bearing fruit.

Not producing fruit; unfruitful, sterile; (Botany). Frequently figurative: failing to achieve the desired results, unproductive; barren.

Lacking capacity for new growth; sterile, unfruitful.