| bark beetle ... Barnes, Julian |
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- any member of the insect family Scolytidae (Ipidae, with more than 2,000 species) of the order Coleoptera. They are cylindrical, usually under 6 mm (0.25 inch) long, brown or black in colour, and often very destructive. The male and female-sometimes ...
- bark painting
- nonwoven fabric decorated with figurative and abstract designs usually applied by scratching or by painting. The basic clothlike material, produced from the inner bark, or bast, of certain trees (see bast fibre), is made by stripping off the bast, soaking ...
- bark-gnawing beetle
- any member of the insect family Trogossitidae (Ostomidae), containing about 500 species, most of which are tropical. Bark-gnawing beetles range from 5 to 20 mm (0.2 to 0.8 inch) and are dark-coloured. Species Tenebrioides mauritanicus is found in granaries; its ...
- barkentine
- sailing ship of three or more masts having fore-and-aft sails on all but the front mast (foremast), which is square rigged. Because of the reduction of square sails, it required fewer crew members and was popular in the Pacific after ...
- Barker, George
- English poet mostly concerned with the elemental forces of life. His first verses were published in the 1930s, and he became popular in the '40s, about the same time as the poet Dylan Thomas, who voiced similar themes but whose ...
- Barker, Lady Mary Anne
- writer best known for her book Station Life in New Zealand (1870), a lively account of life in colonial New Zealand.
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