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- noun Plural form of
canker . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
canker .
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Examples
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The number of beetle galleries and associated dead bark, called cankers, in a tree is enormous.
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Continuous inspection of the trees, with prompt removal of diseased material, such as cankers and infected branches, following methods recognized as sanitary, and immediate burning will be very helpful in checking the trouble.
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It would need a long article to place the reader _au courant_ with the chief results of what is known of these diseases, and I must be content here with the bare statement that these "cankers" are in the main due to local injury or destruction of the cambium.
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Then there is a class of diseases which commence in the bark or cortex of trees, and extend thence into the cambium and timber: some of these "cankers," as they are often called, are proved to be due to the ravages of fungi, though there is another series of apparently similar "cankers" which are caused by variations in the environment -- the atmosphere and weather generally.
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Pathogens usually leave some kind of evidence behind, such as cankers, rot or leaf spot.
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Now, in "cankers" this is -- put shortly -- what happens: it may be, and often is, due to the local action of a parasitic fungus; or it may be, and, again, often is, owing to injuries produced by the weather, in the broad sense, and saprophytic organisms may subsequently invade the wounds.
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Of all the cankers of human happiness, none corrodes it with so silent, yet so baneful a tooth, as indolence.
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They've developed a treatment that is simultaneously high - and low-tech: After scientists identified a few key viral strains, volunteers such as Essie Burnworth cooked up a hypo-virulent soup in her Potomac home to inject into the cankers of affected American chestnuts.
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They've developed a treatment that is simultaneously high - and low-tech: After scientists identified a few key viral strains, volunteers such as Essie Burnworth cooked up a hypo-virulent soup in her Potomac home to inject into the cankers of affected American chestnuts.
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They've developed a treatment that is simultaneously high - and low-tech: After scientists identified a few key viral strains, volunteers such as Essie Burnworth cooked up a hypo-virulent soup in her Potomac home to inject into the cankers of affected American chestnuts.
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