canker

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈkæŋkə/    美 /ˈkæŋkɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A plant disease marked by gradual decay. countable,uncountable
  2. A region of dead plant tissue caused by such a disease. countable,uncountable
    — Slightly sunken brown cankers of variable size and shape affect stem parts primarily below the soil line.
  3. A worm or grub that destroys plant buds or leaves; cankerworm. countable,uncountable
    — loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud[…]
  4. A corroding or sloughing ulcer; especially a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth. countable,uncountable
  5. Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroys. countable,uncountable
    — the canker of destitution and violence.
  6. A kind of wild rose; the dog rose. countable,uncountable
    — To put down Richard, that ſweet louely Roſe, And plant this thorne, this canker Bullingbrooke?
  7. An obstinate and often incurable disease of a horse's foot, characterized by separation of the horny portion and the development of fungoid growths. Usually resulting from neglected thrush. countable,uncountable
  8. An avian disease affecting doves, poultry, parrots and birds of prey, caused by Trichomonas gallinae. countable,uncountable
  9. A crab. Cornwall,countable,rare,uncountable
    — This Caſtoꝛ liueth by water and lande, he loueth to feede vpon Crabbes and Cankers of the Sea.
动词 v.
  1. To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume. transitive
    — Still onward winds the dreary way; / I with it; for I long to prove / No lapse of moons can canker Love, / Whatever fickle tongues may say.
  2. To infect or pollute; to corrupt. transitive
  3. To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral. intransitive
  4. To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous. intransitive
    — as with age his body uglier grows, So his mind cankers.

词形变化

cankers plural cankers present,singular,third-person cankering participle,present cankered participle,past cankered past

词汇关系

近义词
encanker
衍生词
black canker canker fly cankerlike cankerous canker rash canker sore cankerwort cankery encanker
相关词
chancre

词源

词源 1
From Middle English canker, cancre, from Old English cancer (“cancer; crab”), akin to Dutch kanker, Old High German chanchar. Ultimately from Latin cancer (“a cancer”). Doublet of cancer, a later borrowing from Latin, and chancre, which came through French.
词源 2
From Middle English cankren, from the noun (see above).
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