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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.) 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..

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

Canker Rash :: Canker rash () A form of scarlet fever characterized by ulcerated or putrid sore throat.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Encanker :: Encanker (v. t.) To 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 Blossom :: Canker blossom () That which blasts a blossom as a canker does.

Erosion :: Erosion (n.) The state of being eaten away; corrosion; canker.

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

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

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