ANNUAL RING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does annual ring mean? 

• ANNUAL RING (noun)
  The noun ANNUAL RING has 1 sense:

1. an annual formation of wood in plants as they grow

  Familiarity information: ANNUAL RING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANNUAL RING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An annual formation of wood in plants as they grow

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

annual ring; growth ring

Hypernyms ("annual ring" is a kind of...):

organic phenomenon ((biology) a natural phenomenon involving living plants and animals)

 Context examples 

Dense, often dark, and heavily lignified wood produced in the annual ring during the later part of the growing season, characterized by small, thick-walled cells.

(Latewood, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)

Also known as a double ring or an intra-annual ring.

(False ring, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)

The portion of the annual ring produced early in the growing season, characterized by large, thin-walled cells.

(Earlywood, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)

Tree rings are as distinctive as fingerprints: the width, density and anatomy of each annual ring contains information about what the climate was like during that particular year.

(Amount of carbon stored in forests reduced as climate warms, University of Cambridge)

A change in cell structure within an annual growth layer, which resembles the boundary of a true annual ring, making it appear to be two or more growth layers instead of one.

(False ring, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)