Object

• dog: You guide a little barking dog around a maze to find all the authors.

Converse of object

• fissure: Many different kinds of weird and wonderful beetles and other invertebrates may live in the cracks in gnarled and fissured old bark.

• peel: If you peel the bark off a tree, you don't renew its youth as a sapling; it just dies.

Preposition: at

• passer-by: Loui was very stressed in his former kennels and was not showing himself off to his best advantage, barking at passers-by.

Adjective modifier

• powdered: From the 17th century, quinine from the powdered bark of a South American tree was used to treat malaria in Europe.

• birch: She is the light of birch bark, carved to sail on her soothing rivers.

• shredded: Shredded bark, left in a pile will eventually break down and become great compost.

• inner: A brown dye is obtained from the inner bark A glue is made from the sap.

Adjective complement

• mad: You'd be barking mad not to give one a home!

Modifies a noun

• chipping: The path has been covered with bark chippings, topped up every couple of years.

• decoction: Taken each month during menstruation, a bark decoction is held to be contraceptive.

• mulch: So I keep a pile of rotted bark mulch near my compost bins.

• beetle: Moreover, they have been limited to some regions or species of bark beetles.

• rubbing: Was a nice afternoon and had had an idea to get out again and maybe do something like bark rubbings.

Noun used with modifier

• cinchona: The first drug picture clearly defined by him was that of cinchona bark.

• willow: The active ingredient in aspirin was originally derived from willow bark.

• peeling: The tree trunks are beaten and the peeling bark is removed.

• cork: The outputs of these systems include meat, milk, wool, charcoal, cork bark and grain.

• cinnamon: Add the garlic and cinnamon bark and fry for 2 minutes.

• honeysuckle: The nest is usually made of honeysuckle bark, often in brambles.