barkless
adjective (1)Definition of barkless
(Entry 1 of 2)
of a dog
: marked by the absence of or inability to produce barking sounds : lacking a bark
When I was growing up, I had read a children's book where the family had a couple of these dogs and I had been fascinated by the fact that they were barkless.— Linda M. Howard The dog … was a basenji—a rare breed also known as "the barkless dog of the Congo."— Pat Cahill
barkless
adjective (2)Definition of barkless (Entry 2 of 2)
of a woody plant or plant part
: lacking bark
… cavorting on the barkless cantilevered trunk of a dead tree …— Jay Jacobs The river was full of logs—long, slender, barkless pine logs—and we leaned on the rails of the bridge, and watched the men put them together into rafts.— Mark Twain
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The first known use of barkless was in 1604
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