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What does canker mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word canker? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. (phytopathology) A plant disease marked by gradual decay.
  2. A worm or grub that destroys plant buds or leaves; cankerworm.
  3. A corroding or sloughing ulcer; especially a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth.
  4. Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroys.
  5. A kind of wild rose; the dog rose.
  6. An avian disease affecting doves, poultry, parrots and birds of prey, caused by Trichomonas gallinae.
Verb
  1. (transitive) To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume.
  2. (transitive) To infect or pollute; to corrupt.
  3. (intransitive) To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral.
  4. (intransitive) To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous.
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