apple canker

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   a disease of apple trees

   Synonymsapple blight

   Broaderblight

Questions about apple canker

What does apple canker mean?

apple canker means "a disease of apple trees".

What is another word for apple canker?

Close synonyms include apple blight. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is apple canker a common word?

apple canker is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.