Poverty
Poverty (pov"ẽr*ty) , noun
[Old English poverte, Old French poverté, French pauvreté, from Latin paupertas, from pauper poor. See Poor.]
1.
The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.
Swathed in numblest poverty.
The drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty.
2.
Any deficiency of elements or resources that are needed or desired, or that constitute richness; as, poverty of soil; poverty of the blood; poverty of ideas.
Collocations (1)
Poverty grass (Botany) , a name given to several slender grasses (as Aristida dichotoma, and Danthonia spicata) which often spring up on old and worn-out fields.