ring-bark

verb, noun — 3 senses

verb

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:

noun

The bark removed by ring-barking.

The area of the tree from which the bark has been removed by ring-barking.

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