ring-bark

verb

To girdle a tree; to kill a tree by removing a ring of bark, phloem, and cambium.

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Meanings

verbring-bark (third-person singular simple present ring-barks, present participle ring-barking, simple past and past participle ring-barked)

present singular third person ring-barks · participle present ring-barking · participle past ring-barked · past ring-barked · alternative ring bark · alternative ringbark

  1. transitiveTo girdle a tree; to kill a tree by removing a ring of bark, phloem, and cambium.

    Six or eight inches above this graft the stem should be ring-barked, but leaves above the ring-bark left for shade for two or three weeks […].

    2007, Niya Gopal Mukerji, Handbook of Indian Agriculture, page 389
nounring-bark (uncountable)

alternative ring bark · alternative ringbark

  1. uncountableThe bark removed by ring-barking.
  2. uncountableThe area of the tree from which the bark has been removed by ring-barking.
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