Definition of canker

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

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Cankered :: Cankered (a.) Affected mentally or morally as with canker; sore, envenomed; malignant; fretful; ill-natured..
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..
Water Canker :: Water canker () See Canker, n., 1..
Canker :: Canker (v. t.) To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume.
Cankerous :: Cankerous (a.) Affecting like a canker.
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..
Noma :: Noma (n.) See Canker, n., 1..
Canker :: Canker (n.) A kind of wild, worthless rose; the dog-rose..
Cankeredly :: Cankeredly (adv.) Fretfully; spitefully.
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..
Canker Blossom :: Canker blossom () That which blasts a blossom as a canker does.
Canker-bit :: Canker-bit (a.) Eaten out by canker, or as by canker..
Cankery :: Cankery (a.) Like a canker; full of canker.
Erode :: Erode (v. t.) To eat into or away; to corrode; as, canker erodes the flesh..
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..
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..
Encanker :: Encanker (v. t.) To canker.
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