| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adjective | 1. Affected with canker; as, a cankered mouth.[Websters]
2. Affected mentally or morally as with canker; sore, envenomed; malignant; fretful; ill-natured.[Websters] 3. Being rotten, corrupt, putrid or carious. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being malignant, virulent, spiteful or malign. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being infected or bastardized. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Being wicked, depraved, vicious, bad or mischievous. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Being nasty, evil-minded, foul, ill or malicious.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb | 1. Of Canker.[Websters]
2. To have gangrened, rotted or mouldered. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To be ulcered, ulcerated or boiled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To have tainted or poisoned. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To be rusted or mildewed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To have blighted or scuppered. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To be smutted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To have eroded or nibbled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To be infected, debauched or bastardized. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. To be wicked, depraved, evil-minded, ill-conditioned or ill-natured.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb canker.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (canker) | 1. Become infected with a canker.[Wordnet]. 2. Infect with a canker.[Wordnet]. 3. To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume.[Websters]. 4. To infect or pollute; to corrupt.[Websters]. 5. To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral.[Websters]. 6. To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous.[Websters]. 7. Base verb from the following inflections: cankering, cankered, cankers, cankerer, cankerers, cankeringly and cankeredly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "CANKERED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
Specialty Definition: CANKERED
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Corrupted.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Simple past tense and past participle of canker. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: canker
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Apple canker | A disease of apple trees. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Black canker | A disease in turnips and other crops, produced by a species of caterpillar. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Blight canker | A phase of fire blight in which cankers appear. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Canker bloom | The bloom or blossom of the wild rose or dog-rose. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Canker blossom | That which blasts a blossom as a canker does. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Canker brake | North American evergreen fern having pinnate leaves and dense clusters of lance-shaped fronds. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Canker fly | A fly that preys on fruit. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Canker rash | A form of scarlet fever characterized by ulcerated or putrid sore throat. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Canker sore | An ulceration (especially of the lips or lining of the mouth). Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Chestnut canker | A disease of American chestnut trees. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Citrus canker | Citrus canker is a disease affecting citrus species that is caused by the bacterium Xanthomonas axonopodis. Infection causes lesions on the leaves, stems, and fruit of citrus trees, including limes, oranges, and grapefruit. While not harmful to humans, canker significantly affects the vitality of citrus trees, causing leaves and fruit to drop prematurely; a fruit infected with canker is safe to eat but too unsightly to be sold. (references) | ||
| Stem canker | Rhizoctinia disease of potatoes. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Water canker | See Canker, n., 1. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
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Specialty Expressions: canker
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Atropellis canker | Biology & Biotechnology | A disease of pines caused by two fungi, Atropellis piniphila. and A. pinicola; occurs in many lodgepole pine stands, but only a relatively few are severely infected. Infection can result in reduction of wood quality, stem breakage, and occasionally tree killing. Bark is difficult to remove from cankers. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Scleroderris canker | Biology & Biotechnology | A fungus whose peak infection occurs from May to June although infection may occur any time during the growing season. Red and Scots pines are commonly affected but other species of conifers have also been found to be susceptible. On Scots pine the fungus usually kills only the current year's growth. Trees die only when growing points are repeatedly killed. On red pine however, the fungus has the potential to grow down the branch to the main stem and cause a girdling canker. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Spur canker | Biology & Biotechnology | A disease which destroys the fruit of peaches, plums, cherries and apricots and also of apples. The disease is usually recognized by the rotting of fruits, blasting of flowers and the killing of young stems. A brown spot appears on the fruit and may enlarge until the whole fruit is decayed. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Target canker | Biology & Biotechnology | A perennial canker characterised by prominent, concentrically arranged zones of callus that mark alternate outgrowth and death of the edge of living tissues surrounding the wound. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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