[
US
/ˈkæŋkɝ/
]
[ UK /kˈæŋkɐ/ ]
[ UK /kˈæŋkɐ/ ]
NOUN
- a fungal disease of woody plants that causes localized damage to the bark
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a pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of
according to him, I was the canker in their midst
racism is a pestilence at the heart of the nation - an ulceration (especially of the lips or lining of the mouth)
VERB
- infect with a canker
- become infected with a canker
How To Use canker In A Sentence
- In the bowl is a teaspoon of alum, for him to dip his finger into and touch onto the canker sore in his cheek. AUGUST HEAT
- He was suffering from canker sores in his mouth although he wore knot charms against them. THE SHIPPING NEWS
- To Madame Hanska he revealed more the cankering disappointment, just as he had a twelvemonth previously, after the mishap of the School for Husbands and Balzac
- During all three years of our study, locally high densities of fall cankerworm depleted the preferred resource, box elder, and then ‘spilled over’ onto the less-preferred host, cottonwood.
- In view of a few likelihood by cankered person the website making friend that use is absent " blacklist " on, alarm make the most of of minor of the appeal that inspect hall " Bai Ming is odd " means.
- And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you. Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report
- The earliest opinion appears to have been that canker, as the name indicates, was of a cancerous or cancroid nature. Diseases of the Horse's Foot
- If the canker extends below the soil line, the entire vine must be removed.
- This unique cross is tolerant of major plum diseases - like bacterial spot, bacterial canker, and plum leaf scald - that limit an orchard's life-span in the Southeast.
- Stems may be girdled just above the soil line; tissue thus damaged may appear cracked or cankered.