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(countable, uncountable) The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree. / (medicine) Peruvian bark or Jesuit's bark, the bark of the cinchona from which quinine is produced.

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bark

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bark

IPA(Pronunciation)

/bɑːk/

Noun

countable uncountable

(countable, uncountable) The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree. / (medicine) Peruvian bark or Jesuit's bark, the bark of the cinchona from which quinine is produced.

Japanese Meaning

樹皮 - 樹木の幹や枝を覆っている外層の部分 / 医薬用樹皮 - シンチョナの樹皮で、キニーネの原料として用いられる（ペルービアンバーク、ジェズイッツバークとも呼ばれる）

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The ancient oak's bark was thick and deeply furrowed, providing shelter for moss and insects.

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その古いオークの樹皮は厚く深く溝があり、苔や昆虫の住処になっていた。

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(countable, uncountable) The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree.

The hardships of bark-collecting in the primeval forests of South America are of the severest kind, and undergone only by the half-civilized Indians and people of mixed race, in the pay of speculators or companies located in the towns. Those who are engaged in the business, especially the collectors themselves, are called Cascarilleros or Cascadores, from the Spanish word Cascara, bark.

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