- blight canker
- nouna phase of fire blight in which cankers appear• Hypernyms: ↑fire blight, ↑pear blight
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noun: a phase of fire blight characterized by cankers
Useful english dictionary. 2012.
blight canker
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canker — [n] blistered infection bane, blight, blister, boil, cancer, corrosion, corruption, lesion, rot, scourge, smutch, sore, ulcer; concept 306 canker [v] blight, corrupt animalize, bestialize, consume, corrode, debase, debauch, demoralize, deprave,… … New thesaurus
blight — [n] disease; plague affliction, bane, blot on the landscape*, canker, contamination, corruption, curse, decay, dump, evil, eyesore, fungus, infestation, mildew, pest, pestilence, pollution, rot, scourge, sight, withering, woe; concepts 306,674… … New thesaurus
canker — /kang keuhr/, n. 1. a gangrenous or ulcerous sore, esp. in the mouth. 2. a disease affecting horses feet, usually the soles, characterized by a foul smelling exudate. 3. a defined area of diseased tissue, esp. in woody stems. 4. something that… … Universalium
canker — noun 1) this plant is susceptible to canker Syn: fungal disease, plant rot; blight 2) ear cankers Syn: ulcer, ulceration, infection, sore, abscess, noma 3) racism remains a canker … Thesaurus of popular words
canker — can•ker [[t]ˈkæŋ kər[/t]] n. 1) pat a gangrenous or ulcerous sore, esp. in the mouth 2) ppa a defined area of diseased tissue, esp. in woody stems 3) something that corrupts or destroys; blight 4) ppa to infect with canker 5) to corrupt; destroy… … From formal English to slang
canker — I. n. 1. Mordent ulcer, gangrene, rot. 2. Corrosion, erosion, blight. 3. Corruption, infection, blight, bane, bale, irritation. II. v. a. 1. Corrode, erode, eat away. 2. Infect, corrupt, blight, envenom, poison, sour, embitter, fill with gall.… … New dictionary of synonyms
blight — 1. noun 1) potato blight Syn: disease, canker, infestation, fungus, mildew, mold 2) the blight of aircraft noise Syn: affliction, scourge, bane, curse, plague, menace … Thesaurus of popular words
blight — 1. noun 1) potato blight Syn: disease, canker, infestation, fungus, mildew, mould 2) the blight of aircraft noise Syn: curse, scourge, affliction, plague, menace … Synonyms and antonyms dictionary
canker — Synonyms and related words: abscess, adulterate, alloy, aposteme, bed sore, blain, blast, bleb, blight, blister, boil, break up, bubo, bulla, bunion, cancer, canker sore, carbuncle, chancre, chancroid, cheapen, chilblain, coarsen, cold sore,… … Moby Thesaurus
canker — n 1. lesion, chancre, chancroid, soft chancre, simple chancre; abscess, ulcer, ulceration, noma, fester, festering, gathering, gumboil, parulis, tubercle, Obs. apostem or aposteme or apostume or aposthume, Obs. apostemation, Archaic. impostume;… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
