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Canker :: Canker (n.) A corroding or sloughing ulcer; esp. a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth; -- called also water canker, canker of the mouth, and noma..

Canker Rash :: Canker rash () A form of scarlet fever characterized by ulcerated or putrid sore throat.

Dropworm :: Dropworm (n.) The larva of any geometrid moth, which drops from trees by means of a thread of silk, as the cankerworm..

Erode :: Erode (v. t.) To eat into or away; to corrode; as, canker erodes the flesh..

Canker :: Canker (n.) Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroy..

Canker :: Canker (n.) A disease incident to trees, causing the bark to rot and fall off..

Canker Fly :: Canker fly () A fly that preys on fruit.

Encanker :: Encanker (v. t.) To canker.

Phalaenid :: Phalaenid (n.) Any moth of the family Phalaenidae, of which the cankerworms are examples; a geometrid..

Water Canker :: Water canker () See Canker, n., 1..

Cankered :: Cankered (imp. & p. p.) of Canke.

Cankerworm :: Cankerworm (n.) The larva of two species of geometrid moths which are very injurious to fruit and shade trees by eating, and often entirely destroying, the foliage. Other similar larvae are also called cankerworms..

Cankeredly :: Cankeredly (adv.) Fretfully; spitefully.

Canker :: Canker (v. i.) To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral..

Geometrid :: Geometrid (n.) One of numerous genera and species of moths, of the family Geometridae; -- so called because their larvae (called loopers, measuring worms, spanworms, and inchworms) creep in a looping manner, as if measuring. Many of the species are injurious to agriculture, as the cankerworms..

Canker :: Canker (v. t.) To infect or pollute; to corrupt.

Canker Blossom :: Canker blossom () That which blasts a blossom as a canker does.

Erosion :: Erosion (n.) The state of being eaten away; corrosion; canker.

Cankered :: Cankered (a.) Affected mentally or morally as with canker; sore, envenomed; malignant; fretful; ill-natured..

Canker :: Canker (n.) A kind of wild, worthless rose; the dog-rose..

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