Ring-bark
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Ring-bark is a verb meaning (transitive) To girdle a tree; to kill a tree by removing a ring of bark, phloem, and cambium.
Meaning
(transitive) To girdle a tree; to kill a tree by removing a ring of bark, phloem, and cambium.
More Meanings
- The bark removed by ring-barking.
- The area of the tree from which the bark has been removed by ring-barking.
Example Sentences
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 […].
Word Forms
- ring-barks
- ring-barking
- ring-barked
- ringbark
Related Words
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