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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

barkless en · ADJ

Etymology

From bark + -less.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Without bark (the tree covering).
  2. (not-comparable, of a dog) That does not bark.
    • Pearlie has managed to acquire a phone that purrs, but doesn’t ring; she has found a breed of barkless dog; she censors the newspapers by cutting out upsetting articles. 2008 May 11, Maggie Scarf, “The Fog of Love”, in New York Times:

Deriveds

barklessness

Translations (4)

de rindenlos (without tree covering) · pl bez kory (without tree covering) · fi tuoheton (without tree covering) · fi kaarnaton (without tree covering)