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ring bark

ring bark is the alternative form 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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Forms of ring bark

third-person singular presentring barks
present participlering barking
past participlering barked
pastring barked

Questions about ring bark

What is ring bark the alternative form of?
Ring bark is the alternative form of ring-bark.

Words near ring bark in the dictionary

  1. Ring a Ring o' Rosie
  2. ring around
  3. Ring around the Rosie
  4. Ring around the Rosy
  5. ring back
  6. ring bark
  7. ring barked
  8. ring barking
  9. ring barks
  10. ring bend
  11. ring bends

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