荒蕪

こうぶ【荒蕪】

wildness; barrenness; desolation.

●荒蕪の wild; waste; desolate; barren; uncultivated

・荒蕪の地を開く reclaim wild land; clear waste land

・国の大半は今なお荒蕪の地だ. The greater part of the country still lies waste.

荒蕪地 waste [wild, barren, bad] land; wasteland; a barren tract; a wilderness; a waste.