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

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

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 be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous..

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..

Cankering :: Cankering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Canke.

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

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

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

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 :: Canker (v. t.) To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume.

Cankerous :: Cankerous (a.) Affecting like a canker.

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

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..

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

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

Cankery :: Cankery (a.) Surly; sore; malignant.

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

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