bark

The bark was riven off from the trunk.

He could subsist on bark and grass roots in the isolated island.

Some of the trees are stripped off their bark and mechanically quarter sawed.

Her giant meaty claw carving furrows in the crumbly bark.

The mature ponderosa trees have bark two inches thick and are relatively resistant to fire, which instead burns out the understory - the lower layer - of fire-sensitive Douglas fir seedlings that have grown up since the previous fire.

A male deer makes a buck rub by striping the bark (outer layer) of a small tree with its antlers.

The smooth bark of small red maples makes this species ideal for buck rubs in the forests of the mid-eastern United States.

Spices can come from tree bark like cinnamon, plant roots like ginger, flower buds like cloves.

In industrialized areas, lichens are destroyed by pollution, tree barks become darker, and dark moths are the ones birds have difficulty detecting.

One great thing about these birch bark canoes was, uh, they could carry a large amount of cargo.

The bark was stretched over frames made from tree branches, stitched together and sealed with resin.

They would peel large sheets of bark from the tree to form lightweight yet sturdy canoes.

But the most important use of the bark, by far, was the canoe.

Pro: Oh, that's one of the great things about birch bark.

They could fold the bark into many shapes.

The Native Americans would cut the bark and fold it into any shape they needed, then secure it with cords until it dried.

Pro: Well, birch bark is pliable and very easy to bend.

Stu: I know people make utensils out of wood, but utensils out of tree bark?

So the winter bark was used for larger utensils and containers.

And this waterproof quality of the bark, it made it useful for making things like cooking containers, a variety of utensils.

The birch tree has white bark, and this tough protective outer layer of the tree, this white bark, is waterproof.

Stu: Um, they are tall and white, the bark, I mean.

A small dog barked at a seagull he was chasing.

In this study, the researchers looked at the high-pitched barks a prairie dog makes when it spots predator.

It barks without having to learn how from other dogs, it just barks.

When a dog, a puppy gets to certain age, it's able to bark.

I didn't mean to bark at you.