ring-bark
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See also: ringbark
English[edit]
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Verb[edit]
ring-bark (third-person singular simple present ring-barks, present participle ring-barking, simple past and past participle ring-barked)
- To girdle a tree; to kill a tree by removing a ring of bark, phloem, and cambium.
- 2007, Niya Gopal Mukerji, Handbook of Indian Agriculture, page 389:
- 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 […].
Noun[edit]
- The bark removed by ring-barking
- The area of the tree from which the bark has been removed by ring-barking
Usage notes[edit]
In the US, the term girdling is used, almost exclusively.
References[edit]
- “ringbark”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.