meaning of canker
1. A corroding or sloughing ulcer; esp. a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth; -- called also water canker, canker of the mouth, and noma.
2. Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroy.
3. A disease incident to trees, causing the bark to rot and fall off.
4. An obstinate and often incurable disease of a horses foot, characterized by separation of the horny portion and the development of fungoid growths; -- usually resulting from neglected thrush.
5. A kind of wild, worthless rose; the dog-rose.
6. To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume.
7. To infect or pollute; to corrupt.
8. To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral.
9. To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous.
10. A form of scarlet fever characterized by ulcerated or putrid sore throat.
11. The bloom or blossom of the wild rose or dog-rose.
12. That which blasts a blossom as a canker does.
13. A fly that preys on fruit.
14. an ulceration especially of the lips or lining of the mouth
Related Words
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