Definition of canker

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

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Encanker :: Encanker (v. t.) To canker.
Water Canker :: Water canker () See Canker, n., 1..
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..
Noma :: Noma (n.) See Canker, n., 1..
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..
Cankery :: Cankery (a.) Like a canker; full of 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 :: Canker (v. t.) To infect or pollute; to corrupt.
Canker :: Canker (n.) A disease incident to trees, causing the bark to rot and fall off..
Canker :: Canker (v. i.) To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral..
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.
Phalaenid :: Phalaenid (n.) Any moth of the family Phalaenidae, of which the cankerworms are examples; a geometrid..
Cankerous :: Cankerous (a.) Affecting like a canker.
Canker Blossom :: Canker blossom () That which blasts a blossom as a canker does.
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..
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..
Canker-bit :: Canker-bit (a.) Eaten out by canker, or as by canker..
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