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ring-bark

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

Verb

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

  1. (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 […].2007, Niya Gopal Mukerji, Handbook of Indian Agriculture, page 389

Noun

ring-bark (uncountable)

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

Forms of ring-bark

third-person singular presentring-barks
present participlering-barking
past participlering-barked
pastring-barked
alternative formring bark
alternative formringbark

Questions about ring-bark

What does ring-bark mean?
Ring-bark means to girdle a tree; to kill a tree by removing a ring of bark, phloem, and cambium.
What part of speech is ring-bark?
Ring-bark can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of ring-bark?
The past tense of ring-bark is ring-barked.

Words near ring-bark in the dictionary

  1. ring wrenches
  2. ring-a-ding
  3. ring-a-ding-ding
  4. ring-a-levio
  5. ring-around-the-rosy
  6. ring-bark
  7. ring-barked
  8. ring-barking
  9. ring-barks
  10. ring-bill
  11. ring-billed gull

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