canker
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- noun
- /ˈkæŋkər/
- Specialized
:
chancro
- On the trunk, at the base of the branch, was a fungal canker where yellow resin oozed like sticky tears out of cracked and swollen bark.
- pitch canker
- canker will spread
- citrus canker
Now, the nice thing is the fact that Peach canker tends to move up the tree.
- Now, the nice thing is the fact that Peach canker tends to move up the tree.
Examples
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Therefore, when trees are dormant, growers should remove only the blighted shoots and large cankers caused by bacteria.
Academic text (1997) -
The lab recently released a new Chinese redbud, a cultivar called Don Egolf, a variety of Cercis chinensis with a natural defense against Botryosphaeria dothidia canker.
Academic text (2002) -
And cankers are cut out.
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In the fall of 1995, they heavily pruned the trees and removed any cankers or damaged bark that might house bacteria.
Academic text (1997) -
This Rome Beauty apple tree inside an arborsphere at the Appalachian Fruit Research Station in Kearneysville, West Virginia, has been pruned to remove all fire blight cankers.
Academic text (1997) -
Many diseases found in orchards bear names that are frankly descriptive of symptoms: powdery mildew, sprinkler rot, perennial canker, apple scab.
Fiction book (1999) -
Symptoms are broken branches, cankers, splitting lichen-covered bark, holes, thin crowns, early leaf drop, lack of autumn color, and yellowed needles.
Blog text (32) -
The brown cankers, rust-colored spores, mottled leaves, and lemon-yellow lesions that plague afflicted plants can foreshadow obliteration of an entire crop.
Academic text (2006) -
Peach canker can cause significant damage to the tree's bark if left untreated.
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Some trees can survive a bout with canker, but it often weakens them over time.
Compounds
- Specialized
A disease that attacks chestnut trees, making sores on the bark and often killing the tree
How Damaging
Surface Forms
Etymology
Canker comes from an old Latin word cancer meaning 'crab', a picture people used for damage that spreads and eats into wood. That's why a canker in plants is a spreading bark disease that makes dead, sunken patches and weakens the tree.