Definition of Blight canker

1. Noun. A phase of fire blight in which cankers appear.

Generic synonyms: Fire Blight, Pear Blight

Lexicographical Neighbors of Blight Canker

bleynte
bleys
bli neder
bliaut
bliauts
blicket
blickets
blickey
blickies
bliddy
blidget
blidgets
blidgetted
blidgetting
blight
blight canker (current term)
blighted
blighted ovum
blighter
blighters
blighties
blighting
blightingly
blights
blighty wound
blimbing
blimbings
blimey
blimey O'Reilly
blimey O'Riley

Literary usage of Blight canker

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Manual of Fruit Diseases by Lexemuel Ray Hesler, Herbert Hice Whetzel (1917)
"Oozing blight-canker 328 90. Fire-blight on apple-fruit 329 91. Fire-blight on pear-fruit . . . 329 92. Pear-scab 333 93. ..."

2. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1906)
"blight canker.—-WHETZEL has published the results of his study of a canker of apple trees in New York ..."

3. The Encyclopedia of Practical Horticulture: A Reference System of Commercial by Granville Lowther, William Worthington (1914)
"After a little experience one can distinguish the two fungi on the bark without the aid of the microscope. Pear blight canker The canker of apple trees ..."

4. The Minnesota Horticulturist by Minnesota State Horticultural Society (1905)
"He designates blight as blight canker, and gave us many illustrations of its effect on limbs, body and trunk of the trees and on the foliage, what he called ..."

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