bark

Noun

bark (countable and uncountable; plural barks)

1. (countable) (uncountable) The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree; the rind.
   • Usage note: Usually uncountable; may be countable when referring to the barks of different types of tree.
2. (medicine) Peruvian Bark or Jesuit"s bark, the bark of the cinchona from which quinine is produced.

4 letters in word "bark": A B K R.

Anagrams of bark:

• kbar

• krab

Words found within bark:

ab ar arb ark ba bar bra ka kab

• Definitions:
• speak in an unfriendly tone; "She barked into the dictaphone" cover with bark tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants remove the bark of a tree a noise resembling the bark of a dog make barking sounds; "The dogs barked at the stranger" a sailing ship with 3 (or more) masts tan (a skin) with bark tannins the sound made by a dog
• BARK (Binär Automatisk ReläKalkylator) was completed in February 1950 at a cost of 400.000 Swedish kronor. BARK was a 32 bit machine and could perform addition in 150 ms and multiplication in 250 ms. It had a memory with 50 registers and 100 constants. ...
• Bark is the outermost layer of stems and roots of woody plants such as trees. It overlays the wood and consists of three layers, the cork, the phloem, and the vascular cambium.
• Barking is the one of the noises most commonly produced by dogs. Woof is the most common representation in the English language for this sound (especially for large dogs), other than "bark" itself. Other transliterations include ruff, arf, yap (small dogs), and bow-wow.
• A barque, barc, or bark is a type of sailing vessel.
• One of the lesser known albums by Jefferson Airplane, notable for many "firsts" with its major personnel change. It was the first without band founder Marty Balin and the first with violinist Papa John Creach. Drummer Spencer Dryden had also left, being replaced by Joey Covington. ...
• Bark is a grassroots, nonprofit organization based in the northwest portion of the U.S. state of Oregon that works to preserve the forests, waters and wildlife of Mount Hood National Forest and surrounding regions.
• is a character in Navel's Shuffle! media franchise. His only appearance is as a secondary character in Tick! Tack!, where he is Forbesii's butler.
• An older term used to describe the decarburized skin that develops on steel bars heated in a non-protective atmosphere.
• The outermost cell layers on stems, branches, twigs, and roots, formed by the cambium cells. The bark of trees usually has two layers, the outer and the inner, more or less distinct in structure, texture, color, etc.
• The tough outer covering of trunks or stems of trees, shrubs, and vines.
• A small sailing ship with three masts and square sails.
• outermost layer on a tree's trunk that protects the tree from injury.
• The tissues outside the wood and the cambial layer of woody stems.
• Protective layer on the outside of stems and branches, consisting of living cork cells on the inside and dead cells on the outside.
• The outer layer of the stems, limbs and twigs of woody plants. Often bark is characteristic of the species and can be used for identification.
• Surface of metal, under the oxide-scale layer, resulting from heating in an oxidizing environment. In the case of steel, such bark always suffers from decarburization.
• The outer protective layer of a tree composed of dead cork and other elements.
• outward covering of the tree.
• outer layer of stems and trunks; protective tissue.
• The outer protective tissue of a woody stem.
• The decarburized layer just beneath the scale resulting from heating steel in an oxidizing atmosphere.
• (Hunting) A term often used to describe the sound made by a squirrel excited by the presence of a predator or other danger.
• A brown crunchy crust that forms on some ribs. Some people, like me, really like this.
• the outermost covering of a tree. Like many aspects of plants in the natural world, bark can show remarkable variation.
• To give "tongue", "noise", or "speak" on command to frighten and drive the stock.
• the protective layer of trees and bushes
• A vessel square-rigged on all but the aftermost mast, which is fore-and-aft rigged. Also called Barque. Most were three-masted, some were four- or five-masted vessels. ...

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