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

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

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

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

Cankerous :: Cankerous (a.) Affecting like a canker.

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

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 kind of wild, worthless rose; the dog-rose..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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