chestnut canker

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   a disease of American chestnut trees

   Synonymschestnut blightchestnut-bark disease

   Broaderblight

Questions about chestnut canker

What does chestnut canker mean?

chestnut canker means "a disease of American chestnut trees".

What is another word for chestnut canker?

Close synonyms include chestnut blight, chestnut-bark disease. 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 chestnut canker a common word?

chestnut 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.