canker
noun
a gangrenous or ulcerous sore, especially in the mouth.
cankers
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pluralof canker.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The blight precipitated an insidious acid in the American chestnut trees, and gnawed grievous cankers into their woody trunks.
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
Fire blight, a bacterial disease that can cause weeping cankers on pear-tree trunks, generally responds to antibiotics, but the drugs can stop working if over-used.
From Nature ● Mar. 13, 2017
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
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
