bark
noun
the abrupt, harsh, explosive cry of a dog.
barkless
-
a word derived from
bark.
Example Sentences
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It's found on barkless dead wood or on wood where the bark has begun to peel away.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 19, 2015
Leafless, branchless, barkless, they are reduced to their trunks and worn to a smooth silver-gray, as if they had always carried their own tombstones inside them.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 20, 2015
Last week, however, in London's Trinity Hall, at the annual show of the British Basenji Club, a barkless Basenji barked.
From Time Magazine Archive
One E. G. Pryce, returning from Russia, declared that Soviet scientists have bred a barkless dog by crossing a Siberian wolfhound with an Australian dingo.
From Time Magazine Archive
I walked along the whole edge of the island until I found Daisy sitting on an uprooted barkless tree that had beached here as some flood receded.
From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green
