Cankery
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Cankery is an adjective meaning Full of canker (plant disease); diseased and decaying.
Meaning
Full of canker (plant disease); diseased and decaying.
More Meanings
- Marked by cankers; ulcerous.
- Rusty; corroded.
- Corrosive.
- (of taste) Metallic or bitter.
- Surly; cantankerous.
- Characteristic of canker (disease of a horse's foot, characterized by separation of the horny portion and the development of fungoid growths)
Example Sentences
A Child of Mr Joshua Fales, aged 6 1/2 years of a cankery Disorder .
These cankery complaints require a wash made of the medicine recommended by Dr. Thomson to remove canker .
The next from of Chancre we have to notice is that denominated malignant; which is an ulcer having a circumjacent scarlet hue, cankery and putrid .
The part of the trunk below a shews the cankery state of the bark; which rough cankery bark must always be pared off, otherwise it will infect the new .
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include cankred, cancrine, cancriform, crannied, canlike, carunculous.
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