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plant disease vs canker

canker vs plant disease

plant disease and canker both are nouns.

plant disease is not a verb while canker is a verb.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
plant disease Yes No No No
canker Yes No Yes No
As nouns, canker is a hyponym of plant disease; that is, canker is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than plant disease:
  • plant disease: a disease that affects plants
  • canker: a fungal disease of woody plants that causes localized damage to the bark
Other hyponyms of plant disease include blight, leaf disease, rust, blackheart, black knot, black rot, black spot, bottom rot, brown rot, gummosis, cotton ball, crown gall, crown wart, damping off, dieback, dry rot, heartrot, mosaic, rhizoctinia disease, pink disease, potato wart, root rot, scorch, sweet-potato ring rot, sclerotium disease, sclerotium rot, Dutch elm disease, ergot, foot rot, pinkroot, wilt, wilt disease, smut, soft rot, yellow dwarf, yellow spot.
plant disease (noun) canker (noun)
a disease that affects plants a pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of
an ulceration (especially of the lips or lining of the mouth)
a fungal disease of woody plants that causes localized damage to the bark
plant disease (verb) canker (verb)
infect with a canker
become infected with a canker
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