(now chiefly historical) Cinchona bark, chiefly as used in medicine.

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

A tree (Drimys winteri) native to Chile and Argentina, grown as an ornamental plant for its reddish-brown bark, bright green, fragrant leaves and clusters of creamy white, jasmine-scented flowers.

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

simple past tense and past participle of ring-bark

(obsolete) Synonym of cinchona (bark, either untreated or prepared as a medicine).

All the tissues of a tree external to the vascular cambium; includes epidermis, cortex and phloem.

sassy bark

The bark of a West African leguminous tree (Erythrophleum suaveolens), used by the natives as an ordeal poison in a process called sassywood, and also medicinally.

plural of bark louse