canker
91endothia canker — noun Usage: capitalized E : chestnut blight …
92european canker — noun Usage: usually capitalized E 1. : a disease of the apple, pear, and other fruit and shade trees caused by a fungus (Nectria galligena) producing cankers on the trunks and branches characterized by concentric rings of callus 2. : a disease of …
93larch canker — noun : a destructive disease of the larch and to a lesser extent of fir and pine caused by an ascomycetous fungus (Dasyscypha willkommii) that produces flattened depressed cankers on the twigs and branches …
94peach canker — noun : a disease of peaches characterized by production of cankers (as those caused by fungi of the genera Valsa and Sclerotinia) compare brown rot 1a …
95potato canker — noun 1. : potato wart 2. : a powdery scab in which there is destruction of the flesh of the tuber that leaves hollowed out eroded areas which are larger than the usual spots …
96stripe canker — noun : black thread …
97black stripe canker — noun see black stripe 2 …
98noma — Canker Can ker (k[a^][ng] k[ e]r), n. [OE. canker, cancre, AS. cancer (akin to D. kanker, OHG chanchar.), fr. L. cancer a cancer; or if a native word, cf. Gr. ? excrescence on tree, ? gangrene. Cf. also OF. cancre, F. chancere, fr. L. cancer. See …
99Cankered — Canker Can ker (k[a^][ng] k[ e]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cankered} ( k[ e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Cankering}.] 1. To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume. [1913 Webster] No lapse of moons can canker Love. Tennyson. [1913 Webster]… …
100Cankering — Canker Can ker (k[a^][ng] k[ e]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cankered} ( k[ e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Cankering}.] 1. To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume. [1913 Webster] No lapse of moons can canker Love. Tennyson. [1913 Webster]… …