bark
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"They're herbivores, so they feed on lots of different vegetation, so you'll often see piles of sticks with the bark chewed off."
From BBC • Mar. 14, 2026
These are the days that smell faintly of iron and wet bark.
From Salon • Mar. 1, 2026
In the 1950s and 1960s, some indigenous artists began painting ritual designs on bark, instead of cave walls, using traditional earth pigments.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 28, 2026
The forester examined the tree and found D-shaped holes — the calling card of the goldspotted oak borer — where the beetles had chewed through the tree to emerge from the bark.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 10, 2026
After that, she’d made a little box of folded rowan bark, and smeared it with wormwood and red ochre.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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