ring-bark

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الإنجليزية - الإنجليزية
The area of the tree from which the bark has been removed by ring-barking
To girdle a tree; to kill a tree by removing a ring of bark

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 .

The bark removed by ring-barking
ringbark
To remove the bark from a tree in a ring all the way around its trunk, normally killing the tree (because nutrients are carried through the phloem, the layers immediately under the bark, which layers are damaged by the process)
ringbark
{f} cut a ring of bark from a tree, girdle