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Meaning of ring-bark | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

To girdle a tree; to kill a tree by removing a ring of bark, phloem, and cambium.

transitive

Examples

“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 […].”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

ring-barked ring-barking ring-barks ring-fence ring-fenced ring-fences