Definition of canker

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

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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-bit :: Canker-bit (a.) Eaten out by canker, or as by canker..
Cankerous :: Cankerous (a.) Affecting like a canker.
Canker :: Canker (v. t.) To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume.
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..
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..
Cankery :: Cankery (a.) Like a canker; full of canker.
Cankered :: Cankered (a.) Affected mentally or morally as with canker; sore, envenomed; malignant; fretful; ill-natured..
Canker Bloom :: Canker bloom () The bloom or blossom of the wild rose or dog-rose.
Erosion :: Erosion (n.) The state of being eaten away; corrosion; 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..
Phalaenid :: Phalaenid (n.) Any moth of the family Phalaenidae, of which the cankerworms are examples; a geometrid..
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..
Cankery :: Cankery (a.) Surly; sore; malignant.
Erode :: Erode (v. t.) To eat into or away; to corrode; as, canker erodes the flesh..
Cankered :: Cankered (imp. & p. p.) of Canke.
Canker :: Canker (n.) Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroy..
Canker :: Canker (n.) A kind of wild, worthless rose; the dog-rose..
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