Definition of canker

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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..

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Canker :: Canker (n.) A disease incident to trees, causing the bark to rot and fall off..
Water Canker :: Water canker () See Canker, n., 1..
Cankered :: Cankered (a.) Affected mentally or morally as with canker; sore, envenomed; malignant; fretful; ill-natured..
Cankerous :: Cankerous (a.) Affecting like a canker.
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..
Cankery :: Cankery (a.) Like a canker; full of canker.
Phalaenid :: Phalaenid (n.) Any moth of the family Phalaenidae, of which the cankerworms are examples; a geometrid..
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 Bloom :: Canker bloom () The bloom or blossom of the wild rose or dog-rose.
Cankered :: Cankered (a.) Affected with canker; as, a cankered mouth..
Cankeredly :: Cankeredly (adv.) Fretfully; spitefully.
Dropworm :: Dropworm (n.) The larva of any geometrid moth, which drops from trees by means of a thread of silk, as the cankerworm..
Erosion :: Erosion (n.) The state of being eaten away; corrosion; canker.
Canker :: Canker (n.) Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroy..
Noma :: Noma (n.) See Canker, n., 1..
Canker Fly :: Canker fly () A fly that preys on fruit.
Cankered :: Cankered (imp. & p. p.) of Canke.
Canker-bit :: Canker-bit (a.) Eaten out by canker, or as by canker..
Canker Rash :: Canker rash () A form of scarlet fever characterized by ulcerated or putrid sore throat.
Cankery :: Cankery (a.) Surly; sore; malignant.
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