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

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

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..

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

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

Cankery :: Cankery (a.) Like a canker; full of canker.

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

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

Noma :: Noma (n.) See Canker, n., 1..

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-bit :: Canker-bit (a.) Eaten out by canker, or as by canker..

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..

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

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

Cankered :: Cankered (a.) Affected with canker; as, a cankered mouth..

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..

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

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