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
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Merriam-Webster unabridged
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The first known use of frost ring was in 1896
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