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Definition of Canker
1. Noun. A fungal disease of woody plants that causes localized damage to the bark.
2. Verb. Become infected with a canker.
3. Noun. An ulceration (especially of the lips or lining of the mouth).
4. Verb. Infect with a canker.
5. Noun. A pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of. "According to him, I was the canker in their midst"
Definition of Canker
1. n. 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. v. t. To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume.
3. v. i. To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral.
Definition of Canker
1. Noun. (botany) A plant disease marked by gradual decay. ¹
2. Noun. A corroding or sloughing ulcer; especially a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth. ¹
3. Noun. Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroys. ¹
4. Noun. A kind of wild, worthless rose; the dog rose. ¹
5. Noun. An obstinate and often incurable disease of a horse's foot, characterized by separation of the horny portion and the development of fungoid growths. Usually resulting from neglected thrush. ¹
6. Noun. An avian disease affecting doves, poultry, parrots but also birds of prey caused by ''Trichomonas gallinae'' ¹
7. Verb. (transitive) To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume. ¹
8. Verb. (transitive) To infect or pollute; to corrupt. ¹
9. Verb. (intransitive) To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral. ¹
10. Verb. To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Canker
1. to affect with ulcerous sores [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Medical Definition of Canker
1. 1. In cats and dogs, acute inflammation of the external ear and auditory canal. See: aphtha. 2. In the horse, a process similar to but more advanced than thrush; the horny frog is generally under-run with a whitish, cheeselike exudate, and the entire sole and even the wall of the hoof may be undermined. 3. In man, an outmoded term for aphthae. Origin: L. Cancer (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Canker
Literary usage of Canker
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report (1905)
"The canker is not only a great disfigurement to the tree, but must seriously
interfere- with its growth by cutting off a large part of the path along which ..."
2. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"2. 3 ; Milton, Lycidas, 45. An E. Anglian word, see EDD. (sv canker, ab. ... Cp.
the prov. words canker-ball, the mossy excrescence on a wild rose-bush, ..."
3. Fungous Diseases of Plants, with Chapters on Physiology, Culture Methods and by Benjamin Minge Duggar (1909)
"The blister canker of the apple is well distributed throughout the apple-growing
region of the ... The blister canker has been termed the Illinois canker, ..."
4. Manual of Fruit Diseases by Lexemuel Ray Hesler, Herbert Hice Whetzel (1917)
"Many growers and even scientists have confused the superficial bark-canker with
the black-rot canker. The former disease, like the latter, is found chiefly ..."
5. A Glossary to the Works of William Shakespeare by Alexander Dyce (1902)
"68,; the canker death eats up that plant, Rom. ii. 3. 30; The canker galls the
infants of the spring, Hml. 1. 3. 39; This canker that eats up Love's tender ..."
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