单词 | ringbarker |
释义 | > as lemmasˈringbarker ˈringbarker n. chiefly Australian (a) a person who or device that ringbarks trees in order to kill them; (b) the stick insect Podacanthus wilkinsoni, which sometimes occurs in swarms that cause the defoliation of eucalypts. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun] > removing bark from trees > removing circle of bark > one who ringbarker1886 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Phasmida > family Phasmidae > podocanthus wilkinsoni (ringbarker) ringbarker1935 1886 D. M. Gane New S. Wales & Victoria in 1885 191 The country has been devastated far and wide by the ring-barker, a person who cuts off a circle of bark round the tree. 1905 Spectator 12 Aug. 220/2 The ‘ring-barker's’ axe had been busy cutting the circular girdle in the bark which starves trees to death. 1935 K. C. McKeown Insect Wonders Austral. xviii. 149 Another fine stick-insect is found in the Walcha district, where it is popularly known as the ‘Ringbarker’, because of the dying brown appearance of the trees after the insects have stripped them of their foliage. 1965 Austral. Encycl. VIII. 295/2 Most phasmids are solitary in habit. One of the few gregarious forms, the ringbarker (Podacanthus wilkinsoni), sometimes appears in countless numbers in various districts of New South Wales, where it defoliates the eucalypts. 1981 T.S. McNight & E. J. Mullins Canad. Woods (ed. 3) vi. 132 The mechanical ring barker is the most common type of barker employed in Canada. 2006 H. Neville Chased Sun (ed. 2) i. 19 Leonard Waters..was Aboriginal, had little education, and had worked as a ring-barker and then as a shearer. < as lemmas |
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