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cankers

noun

Meaning

  1. A plant disease marked by gradual decay.
  2. A region of dead plant tissue caused by such a disease.
  3. A worm or grub that destroys plant buds or leaves; cankerworm.
  4. A corroding or sloughing ulcer; especially a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth.
  5. Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroys.
  6. A kind of wild rose; the dog rose.
  7. To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume.
  8. To infect or pollute; to corrupt.
  9. To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral.
  10. To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous.

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Sources

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