Phrase Hound found 10 phrases and 26 compound words that contain barks. The most common are listed below. Open barks in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 10
- bitter barksplural of bitter bark: Any of various trees with bitter bark, some used in traditional medicine:
- ring-barksthird-person singular simple present indicative of ring-bark: To girdle a tree; to kill a tree by removing a ring of bark, phloem, and cambium.
- root barksplural of root bark: The bark from the roots of a woody plant.
- Cartagena barksplural of Cartagena bark: The cinchona bark of Cinchona cordifolia or Cinchona lancifolia.
- quinine barksplural of quinine bark: Synonym of cinchona (“the bark of these plants”).
- Loja barksplural of Loja bark: Synonym of cinchona (“type of bark”).
- barks at printthird-person singular simple present indicative of bark at print: To sound out written words without comprehending the meaning of the text.
- cinchona barksplural of cinchona bark: Synonym of cinchona (“the bark of these plants”).
- barks at the wrong treethird-person singular simple present indicative of bark at the wrong tree: Misconstruction of bark up the wrong tree
- barks up the wrong treethird-person singular simple present indicative of bark up the wrong tree: To take the wrong approach to a situation; to follow a false lead; to attempt to solve a problem using mistaken assumptions about its true nature.
Compound words 26
- BarksianOf or pertaining to Carl Barks (1901–2000), American cartoonist and author, or his works.
- BarksdaleA surname.
- BarkstonA village and civil parish (served by Barkston and Syston Parish Council) in South Kesteven district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref SK9341).
- birchbarksplural of birchbark: The bark of the birch tree, especially the white bark of the paper birch, Betula papyrifera.
- bitterbarksplural of bitterbark: Any of various trees with bitter bark, some used in traditional medicine:
- candlebarksplural of candlebark: The eucalypt tree Eucalyptus rubida.
- disbarksthird-person singular simple present indicative of disbark: To strip (a tree, etc.) of bark.
- ironbarksplural of ironbark: Any of several unrelated eucalypts that have dark, deeply furrowed bark.
- lacebarksplural of lacebark: Any of various New Zealand plants in the genus Hoheria.
- ninebarksplural of ninebark: Any flowering plant of the genus Physocarpus.