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

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

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 (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..

Cankered :: Cankered (a.) Affected mentally or morally as with canker; sore, envenomed; malignant; fretful; ill-natured..

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

Canker :: Canker (v. i.) To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous..

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

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

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