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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
(transitive) To 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 […].
Use ring-bark when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Ring-bark means (transitive) To girdle a tree; to kill a tree by removing a ring of bark, phloem, and cambium..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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 […].
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