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noun

bark

CEFR B1

tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants

In a sentence

Six example sentences with bark, each labelled with its topic.

  • Rangers judge a trunk's health by peeling a coin-sized patch of bark and checking the living layer beneath.

    Science

  • The recipe calls for a strip of cinnamon bark rather than powder, simmered whole and lifted out before serving.

    Cooking

  • Craftsmen in the region paint on bark stripped from fig branches, then beaten flat and dried in the sun.

    Art

  • Quinine comes from the bark of the cinchona tree, and for centuries it was the only treatment for malaria.

    Medicine

  • Beetles tunnel beneath the bark of drought-weakened pines, and whole hillsides turn rust red within a summer.

    Environment

  • Ojibwe builders stitched sheets of birch bark over cedar ribs, making canoes light enough for one person to carry.

    History

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