Definition of canker

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

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Canker :: Canker (v. t.) To infect or pollute; to corrupt.
Canker Rash :: Canker rash () A form of scarlet fever characterized by ulcerated or putrid sore throat.
Erode :: Erode (v. t.) To eat into or away; to corrode; as, canker erodes the flesh..
Canker :: Canker (v. i.) To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral..
Cankery :: Cankery (a.) Surly; sore; malignant.
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..
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..
Phalaenid :: Phalaenid (n.) Any moth of the family Phalaenidae, of which the cankerworms are examples; a geometrid..
Canker Bloom :: Canker bloom () The bloom or blossom of the wild rose or dog-rose.
Canker :: Canker (n.) A kind of wild, worthless rose; the dog-rose..
Canker :: Canker (v. t.) To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume.
Noma :: Noma (n.) See Canker, n., 1..
Encanker :: Encanker (v. t.) To canker.
Canker :: Canker (n.) An obstinate and often incurable disease of a horse's foot, characterized by separation of the horny portion and the development of fungoid growths; -- usually resulting from neglected thrush..
Canker Blossom :: Canker blossom () That which blasts a blossom as a canker does.
Erosion :: Erosion (n.) The state of being eaten away; corrosion; canker.
Canker-bit :: Canker-bit (a.) Eaten out by canker, or as by canker..
Cankeredly :: Cankeredly (adv.) Fretfully; spitefully.
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..
Dropworm :: Dropworm (n.) The larva of any geometrid moth, which drops from trees by means of a thread of silk, as the cankerworm..
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