Noun

(malignancies)

The state of being malignant or diseased.

A malignant cancer; specifically, any neoplasm that is invasive or otherwise not benign.

That which is malign; evil, depravity, malevolence.

* Shakespeare

The malignancy of my fate might perhaps distemper yours.

* {{quote-book, year=1902, author=Arthur Conan Doyle, title=The Hound of the Baskervilles citation

, passage=A cold wind swept down from it and set us shivering. Somewhere there, on that desolate plain, was lurking this fiendish man, hiding in a burrow like a wild beast, his heart full of malignancy against the whole race which had cast him out.}}

Noun

(botany) A plant disease marked by gradual decay.

A corroding or sloughing ulcer; especially a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth.

Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroys.

* Temple

the cankers of envy and faction

A kind of wild rose; the dog rose.

* Shakespeare

To put down Richard, that sweet lovely rose, / And plant this thorn, this canker , Bolingbroke.

An obstinate and often incurable disease of a horse's foot, characterized by separation of the horny portion and the development of fungoid growths. Usually resulting from neglected thrush.

An avian disease affecting doves, poultry, parrots and birds of prey, caused by Trichomonas gallinae .

An obstinate and often incurable disease of a horse's foot, characterized by separation of the horny portion and the development of fungoid growths; usually resulting from neglected thrush.