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black canker

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

Any of several plant diseases causing the formation of dark cankers.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Examples

  • 1927, Plant Research Institute (Canada), Annual Report of the Canadian Plant Disease Survey Scab and black canker is rapidly destroying Salix vitellina in Nova Scotia. Ten per cent of the trees surviving from previous years were killed. The damage caused by these two diseases can not be estimated separately.

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noun

Meaning 2

The larva of the turnip sawfly (Athalia rosae), an agricultural pest having the appearance of a black caterpillar.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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