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Definition of ring-bark in English English dictionary
- 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