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

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

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

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..

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

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

Phalaenid :: Phalaenid (n.) Any moth of the family Phalaenidae, of which the cankerworms are examples; a geometrid..

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

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

Noma :: Noma (n.) 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..

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

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

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

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

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

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