Definitions for canker
canker

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. cankernoun

   a fungal disease of woody plants that causes localized damage to the bark

2. canker, canker sorenoun

   an ulceration (especially of the lips or lining of the mouth)

3. pestilence, cankerverb

   a pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of

   "racism is a pestilence at the heart of the nation"; "according to him, I was the canker in their midst"

4. cankerverb

   become infected with a canker

5. cankerverb

   infect with a canker

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. cankernoun

   A plant disease marked by gradual decay.

2. cankernoun

   A corroding or sloughing ulcer; especially a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth.

3. cankernoun

   Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroys.

4. cankernoun

   A kind of wild, worthless rose; the dog rose.

5. cankernoun

   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.

6. cankernoun

   An avian disease affecting doves, poultry, parrots but also birds of prey caused by Trichomonas gallinae

7. cankerverb

   To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume.

8. cankerverb

   To infect or pollute; to corrupt.

9. cankerverb

   To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral.

10. cankerverb

    To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous.

11. Etymology: canker, cancre, cancer, akin to Dutch kanker, Old High German chanchar. From cancer; or if a native word, compare Greek excrescence on tree, gangrene.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. CANKERnoun

   Etymology: cancer, Lat. It seems to have the same meaning and original with cancer, but to be accidentally written with a k, when it denotes bad qualities in a less degree; or, canker might come from chancre, Fr. and cancer from the Latin.

   1. A worm that preys upon, and destroys fruits.

   And loathful idleness he doth detest,
   The canker worm of every gentle breast. Edmund Spenser.

   That which the locust hath left, hath the canker worm eaten. Joel, i. 4.

   A huffing, shining, flatt’ring, cringing coward,
   A canker worm of peace, was rais’d above him. Thomas Otway.

   2. A fly that preys upon fruits.

   There be of flies, caterpillars, canker flies, and bear flies. Izaak Walton, Angler.

   3. Any thing that corrupts or consumes.

   Yet writers say, as in the sweetest bud
   The eating canker dwells; so eating love
   Inhabits in the finest wits of all. William Shakespeare, Two G. of Verona.

   It is the canker and ruin of many men’s estates, which, in process of time, breeds a publick poverty. Francis Bacon.

   Sacrilege may prove an eating canker, and a consuming moth, in the estate that we leave them. Francis Atterbury.

   No longer live the cankers of my court;
   All to your several states with speed resort;
   Waste in wild riot what your land allows,
   There ply the early feast, and late carouse. Alexander Pope.

   4. A kind of wild worthless rose.

   To put down Richard, that sweet lovely rose,
   And plant this thorn, this canker Bolingbroke. William Shakespeare.

   Draw a cherry with the leaf, the shaft of a steeple, a single or canker rose. Henry Peacham.

   5. An eating or corroding humour.

   I am not glad, that such a sore of time
   Should seek a plaister by a contemn’d revolt,
   And heal th’ inveterate canker of one wound,
   By making many. William Shakespeare, King John.

   6. Corrosion; virulence.

   As with age his body uglier grows,
   So his mind with cankers. William Shakespeare, Tempest.

   7.A disease in trees. Dict.

2. To Cankerverb

   1. To corrupt; to corrode.

   Restore to God his due in tithe and time:
   A tithe purloin’d, cankers the whole estate. George Herbert.

   2. To infect; to pollute.

   An honest man will enjoy himself better in a moderate fortune, that is gained with honour and reputation, than in an overgrown estate, that is cankered with the acquisitions of rapine and exaction. Joseph Addison, Spectator, №. 469.

3. To Cankerverb

   To grow corrupt.

   Etymology: from the noun.

   That cunning architect of canker’d guile,
   Whom princes late displeasure left in bands,
   For falsed letters, and suborned wile. Fairy Queen, b. ii. c. i.

   I will lift the down trod Mortimer
   As high i’ th’ air as this unthankful king,
   As this ingrate and canker’d Bolingbroke. William Shakespeare, Hen. IV.

   Silvering will sully and canker more than gilding; which, if it might be corrected with a little mixture of gold, will be profitable. Francis Bacon, Physical Remains.

   Or what the cross dire looking planet smite,
   Or hurtful worm with canker’d venom bite. John Milton.

   To some new clime, or to thy native sky,
   Oh! friendless and forsaken virtue, fly:
   The Indian air is deadly to thee grown;
   Deceit and canker’d malice rule thy throne. John Dryden, Auren.

   Let envious jealousy, and canker’d spight
   Produce my actions to severest light,
   And tax my open day, or secret night. Matthew Prior.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Canker

   A plant canker is a small area of dead tissue, which grows slowly, often over years. Some cankers are of only minor consequence, but others are ultimately lethal and therefore can have major economic implications for agriculture and horticulture. Their causes include a wide range of organisms as fungi, bacteria, mycoplasmas and viruses. The majority of canker-causing organisms are bound to a unique host species or genus, but a few will attack other plants. Weather and animals can spread canker, thereby endangering areas that have only slight amount of canker.Although fungicides or bactericides can treat some cankers, often the only available treatment is to destroy the infected plant to contain the disease.

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1. canker

   A canker is a type of disease or infection typically found in plants, characterized by areas of dead tissues. These areas usually appear as dark, sunken lesions on the plant's stems, branches, or twigs. Cankers can also refer to ulcerous sores or growths, typically associated with certain diseases in animals or humans.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Cankernoun

   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. Cankernoun

   anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroy

3. Cankernoun

   a disease incident to trees, causing the bark to rot and fall off

4. Cankernoun

   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

5. Cankernoun

   a kind of wild, worthless rose; the dog-rose

6. Cankerverb

   to affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume

7. Cankerverb

   to infect or pollute; to corrupt

8. Cankerverb

   to waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral

9. Cankerverb

   to be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous

10. Etymology: [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 cancer, and cf. Chancre.]

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1. Canker

   Canker and anthracnose are general terms for a large number of different plant diseases, characterised by broadly similar symptoms including the appearance of small areas of dead tissue, which grow slowly, often over a period of years. Some are of only minor consequence, but others are ultimately lethal, and of major economic importance in agriculture and horticulture. Different cankers and anthracnoses are caused by a wide range of organisms, including fungi, bacteria, mycoplasmas and viruses. The majority of canker-causing organisms are tied to a unique host species or genus, but a few will attack a wider range of plants. Canker can be spread by weather and animals, making an area that even has a slight amount of canker hazardous. Some cankers are treatable with fungicides or bactericides, but many are not; often the only treatment available is to destroy the infected plant to prevent the disease from spreading to other plants.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Canker

   kang′kėr, n. an eating sore: a gangrene: a disease in trees, or in horses' feet: anything that corrupts, consumes, irritates, or decays.—v.t. to eat into, corrupt, or destroy: to infect or pollute: to make sour and ill-conditioned.—v.i. to grow corrupt: to decay.—adj. Cank′ered, corroded: venomous, malignant: soured: crabbed.—adv. Cank′eredly.—n. Cank′eredness.—adj. Cank′erous, corroding like a canker.—n. Cank′er-worm, a worm that cankers or eats into plants.—adj. Cank′ery, affected with canker: (Scot.) crabbed. [L. cancer, a crab, gangrene.]

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of canker in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of canker in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of canker in a Sentence

1. Adam Campbell:

   I found that 2,000 milligrams of lysine, taken every day, has eliminated my canker sores.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Canker
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=canker
4. ^ Wikipedia
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5. ^ ChatGPT
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6. ^ Webster Dictionary
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7. ^ Wikidata
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8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
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