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  • noun Plural form of canker.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of canker.

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Examples

  • The number of beetle galleries and associated dead bark, called cankers, in a tree is enormous.

    The Cherry Creek News 2009

  • 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.

    Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting Battle Creek, Michigan, September 10 and 11, 1934

  • 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.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 Various

  • 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.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 Various

  • Pathogens usually leave some kind of evidence behind, such as cankers, rot or leaf spot.

    Homepage | INFORUM | Fargo, ND 2010

  • 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.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 Various

  • Of all the cankers of human happiness, none corrodes it with so silent, yet so baneful a tooth, as indolence.

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • 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.

    American chestnut tree may reach former heights Juliet Eilperin 2010

  • 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.

    The mighty American chestnut tree, poised for a comeback Juliet Eilperin 2010

  • 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.

    The mighty American chestnut tree, poised for a comeback Juliet Eilperin 2010

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