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frost ring

noun

Definition of frost ring

: a false annual ring in the trunk of a tree that is often evident only as a brownish line of collapsed or abnormal cells and is caused by defoliation due to frost and subsequent leafing out again

First Known Use of frost ring

1896, in the meaning defined above

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