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ring-bark

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.80 in modern English

Syllables
ring-bark
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

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

Transitive verb

noun

The bark removed by ring-barking.

Uncountable

noun

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

Uncountable

Example Sentences

Usage

Inflected Forms

ring-barks (present, singular) ring-barking (participle, present) ring-barked (participle, past) ring-barked (past) ring bark (alternative) ringbark (alternative)

Questions

What does ring-bark mean?
To girdle a tree; to kill a tree by removing a ring of bark, phloem, and cambium.

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