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ring-barks

ring-barks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of ring-bark.

Meaning of ring-bark

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

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Questions about ring-barks

What is ring-barks the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Ring-barks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of ring-bark.

Words near ring-barks in the dictionary

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

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