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noun
A plant disease marked by gradual decay.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: biology, botany, medicine, natural-sciences, pathology, phytopathology, sciences
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noun
A region of dead plant tissue caused by such a disease.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A worm or grub that destroys plant buds or leaves; cankerworm.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A corroding or sloughing ulcer; especially a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroys.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A kind of wild rose; the dog rose.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
An avian disease affecting doves, poultry, parrots and birds of prey, caused by Trichomonas gallinae.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A crab.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Cornwall, countable, rare, uncountable
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verb
To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To infect or pollute; to corrupt.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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noun
a pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: pestilence
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Broader terms: influence
noun
an ulceration (especially of the lips or lining of the mouth)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: canker sore
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Broader terms: ulcer, ulceration
noun
a fungal disease of woody plants that causes localized damage to the bark
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: plant disease
verb
infect with a canker
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: infect
verb
become infected with a canker
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: sicken, come down
History
From Middle English canker, cancre, from Old English cancer (“cancer; crab”), akin to Dutch kanker, Old High German chanchar. Ultimately from Latin cancer (“a cancer”). Doublet of cancer, a later borrowing from Latin, and chancre, which came through French.
From Middle English cankren, from the noun (see above).
Across languages
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