英和和英

動詞

ring-bark (third-person singular simple present ring-barks, present participle ring-barking, simple past and past participle ring-barked)

1. (transitive) To girdle a tree; to kill a tree by removing a ring of bark, phloem, and cambium.
   • 2007, Niya Gopal Mukerji, Handbook of Indian Agriculture, page 389:

     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 […].

名詞

ring-bark (uncountable)

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

使用する際の注意点

• In the US, the term girdling is used instead, almost exclusively.

参照

• “ringbark”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

別の表記

• ring-bark

語源

From ring +‎ bark.

動詞

ringbark (third-person singular simple present ringbarks, present participle ringbarking, simple past and past participle ringbarked)

1. (ambitransitive) To remove the bark, phloem, and cambium from a tree in a ring all the way around its trunk, thereby normally killing the tree.
   • 1888, “An Act to regulate Ringbarking on Crown Lands and to limit claims for compensation under the fifteenth section of the "Lands Acts further Amendment Act of 1880."”, in Public Statutes of New South Wales, page 19:

     After the passing of this Act no lessee of Crown Lands shall ringbark any trees on Crown Lands unless he be the holder of a permission to ringbark under the hand of the Minister.

派生語

• ringbarker

使用する際の注意点

• Ring-bark seems about twice as common as ringbark (without hyphen) in books. Girdling is much more common in the US.