Acarpous Ay Kahr Puhs Adjective Producing Fruit Sterile.  Greek Akarpos

acarpous /ay-KAHR-puhs/

adjective

Not producing fruit; sterile. 

[From Greek akarpos, from a- (not) + karpos (fruit). Ultimately from the Indo-European root kerp- (to gather or harvest) which is also the source of harvest, excerpt, carpet, and scarce.]

"According to the doomsayers, if a satellite doesn't clobber you into the next millennium, there's always the danger its plutonium payload will turn your neighbourhood area into an acarpous wasteland." - Adrian Bradley; Space Junk Roulette; The Australian (Sydney); Nov 19, 1996.