cankers
- plural of canker.
Example Sentences
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The chestnut blight secretes a searing chemical, oxalic acid, into the tree bark, eventually causing cankers and death.
From Salon • Dec. 18, 2023
Discuss diseases and insect pests common to roses grown in the maritime Pacific Northwest, including black spot, rust, cercospora leaf spot, powdery mildew, crown gall, cankers, rose mosaic virus and more via Zoom 6:30-8:15 p.m.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 9, 2022
He was curled up in a ball in pain, with bloody diarrhoea, a fever, cankers in his mouth, a rash on his face and boils on his legs.
From BBC • May 26, 2014
She points out signs of stress on nearby trunks, splotches of disease, bark splitting into ugly cankers.
From Scientific American • Sep. 7, 2012
In 1904, a keeper at the Bronx Zoo in New York noticed that the zoo’s handsome chestnuts had become covered in small orange cankers of an unfamiliar type.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
