Word Type

Noun

Verb

Proper Noun

Intj

The word "bark" can be used as noun, verb, proper noun and intj.

Word Relationships

Typical Location

forest

Defined As

out coating of tree outer layer of tree

Derived Terms

Bark scale Barkese Cartagena bark China bark Mancona bark Winter's bark all bark and no bite all bark but no bite all bark no bite bark at print bark at the wrong tree bark bed bark beetle bark bread bark collar bark dust bark louse bark mill bark mitzvah bark mixture bark scorpion bark spud bark up the wrong tree barkbound barkery barking barking deer barking dogs never bite barking iron barking spider barking squirrel barkitecture barkless barklike barkometer barksome barky barky bebark beech bark disease birchbark bitter bark buy a dog and bark oneself cabbage-bark cinchona bark crampbark debark debarker disbark dita bark dogs are barking don't keep a dog and bark yourself elm bark beetle have a dog and bark oneself holy bark ironbark keep a dog and bark oneself lacebark maple bark disease maple bark stripper's disease midbark ninebark oakbark one's bark is worse than one's bite outbark paperbark park and bark park and bark peppermint bark ring-bark ringbark ringbark root bark rootbark sassy bark scale bark sevenbark shagbark shellbark soapbark sooty bark disease stembark stringybark tanbark the dogs bark, but the caravan goes on the dogs bark, but the caravan moves on throw in the bark toothache bark tree bark treebark unbark underbark whitebark why keep a dog and bark yourself worm bark yellow bark

Etymologically Related To

bright

Context

medicine nautical

Has Property

rough

Subevents

produce sounds

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

cover cover covering cry emit let loose let out mouth natural covering noise sailing ship sailing vessel speak strip talk tan utter verbalise verbalize

Type Of (IsA)

animal noise covering cry hard covering for tree noise sailing vessel

Manner Of

cover strip talk tan utter

Part Of

branch root tree trunk

Related Terms

abrade abrupt barbecue bawl bellow bow bow wow candy cinchona clamor cover covering crust dog dog noise dog reaction dog talking dog woof dog yell dogs explosive from dogs girdle hull husk importunate inclose jesuit's bark meat noise on trees outcry outside peel peruvian bark pinnace quinine reaction roar rough rub sharp shout skin smack snarl sound speak strip talking tree tree covering tree outside tree skin trees utterance vocal voice voice of woof wow yell

Synonym Network

flay latrate rind

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.