bark

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: bark

1	n v	tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants remove the bark of a tree
2	n v	the sound made by a dog make barking sounds
3	n	a sailing ship with 3 (or more) masts

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: bark

Types:: show 15 types...; hide 15 types...; cinnamon, cinnamon bark
aromatic bark used as a spice; Chinese cinnamon, cassia bark
aromatic bark of the cassia-bark tree; less desirable as a spice than Ceylon cinnamon bark; cinnamon bark
aromatic bark of Saigon cinnamon used medicinally as a carminative; magnolia
dried bark of various magnolias; used in folk medicine; tanbark
bark rich in tannin; bruised and cut in pieces to use for tanning; spent tanbark used as a ground covering; mezereum
the dried bark of the shrub mezereon; canella, canella bark, white cinnamon
highly aromatic inner bark of the Canella winterana used as a condiment and a tonic; Jesuit's bark, Peruvian bark, cinchona, cinchona bark
medicinal bark of cinchona trees; source of quinine and quinidine; cascarilla bark, eleuthera bark, sweetwood bark
aromatic bark of cascarilla; used as a tonic and for making incense; cascara, cascara sagrada, chittam bark, chittem bark
dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative; winter's bark
aromatic bark having tonic and stimulant properties; tapa, tapa bark, tappa, tappa bark
the thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus; angostura, angostura bark
the bitter bark of a South American tree; used in medicines and liqueurs and bitters; cork
outer bark of the cork oak; used for stoppers for bottles etc.; cork, phellem
(botany) outer tissue of bark; a protective layer of dead cells

Type of:: cover, covering, natural covering
a natural object that covers or envelops

Type of:: tan
treat skins and hides with tannic acid so as to convert them into leather

Type of:: noise
sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound)

“The dogs barked at the stranger”

Types:: bay, quest
bark with prolonged noises, of dogs; yap, yelp, yip
bark in a high-pitched tone

Type of:: emit, let loose, let out, utter
express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words)

“She barked into the dictaphone”

Type of:: sailing ship, sailing vessel
a vessel that is powered by the wind; often having several masts

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