growth ring

1. 1.

   an annual formation of wood in plants as they grow

   Synonymsannual ring

   Broaderorganic phenomenon

Questions about growth ring

What does growth ring mean?

growth ring means "an annual formation of wood in plants as they grow".

What is another word for growth ring?

Close synonyms include annual ring. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is growth ring a common word?

growth ring is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.