stem canker

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   rhizoctinia disease of potatoes

   Synonymslittle potatorosetterusset scab

   Broaderrhizoctinia disease

Questions about stem canker

What does stem canker mean?

stem canker means "rhizoctinia disease of potatoes".

What is another word for stem canker?

Close synonyms include little potato, rosette, russet scab. 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 stem canker a common word?

stem 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.