vegetation-free

As far as possible, tenting must occur on vegetation-free land.

Hence, his work could use a more sympathetic setting than the virtually vegetation-free patio behind the museum, where it remains on view through April 26.

The construction of a new sea wall across the reserve created a shallow freshwater lagoon, with a reed bed on its northern side and a vegetation-free brackish marsh.

Officials in the county, Colorado's most populous, now requires that new homes be built with fire-retardant shingles, driveways wide enough for fire trucks to maneuver and vegetation-free buffer zones 30 feet wide around houses.

The Grand Brûlé is formed from solidified lava flows accumulated over hundreds of thousands of years; the most recent ones are often the darkest and most vegetation-free, while older ones can be covered by dense wild vegetation.

The only notable landmarks are a vegetation-free section of the Tehachapi Mountains that is quickly left behind outside Los Angeles and an enormous cattle ranch in the middle of the desert that exudes a methane stench for miles.