English > bark: 9 senses > noun 1, plant| Meaning | tough / tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants. |
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| Part of | branch | A division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant |
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| root | (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes |
| trunk, tree trunk, bole | The main stem of a tree |
| Narrower | angostura bark, angostura | The bitter bark of a South American tree |
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| canella, canella bark, white cinnamon | Highly aromatic inner bark of the Canella winterana used as a condiment and a tonic |
| cascara, cascara sagrada, chittam bark, chittem bark | dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative |
| cascarilla bark, eleuthera bark, sweetwood bark | aromatic bark of cascarilla |
| cassia bark, Chinese cinnamon | aromatic bark of the cassia-bark tree |
| cinchona, cinchona bark, Peruvian bark, Jesuit's bark | medicinal bark of cinchona trees |
| cinnamon, cinnamon bark | aromatic bark used as a spice / spice |
| cinnamon bark | aromatic bark of Saigon cinnamon used medicinally as a carminative |
| cork | Outer bark of the cork oak |
| magnolia | dried bark of various magnolias |
| mezereum | The dried bark of the shrub mezereon |
| phellem, cork | (botany) outer tissue of bark |
| tanbark | bark rich in tannin |
| tapa, tapa bark, tappa, tappa bark | The thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus |
| winter's bark | aromatic bark having tonic and stimulant properties |
| Broader | covering, natural covering, cover | A natural object that covers or envelops |
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| Spanish | corteza |
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| Catalan | corfa, corxa, escorça |
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| Adjectives | barky | resembling the rough bark of a tree |
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| Verbs | bark | remove the bark of a tree |
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| bark | cover with bark |
