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SPUR CANKER

Specialty Definition: SPUR CANKER

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Food & Agriculture

A disease which destroys the fruit of peaches, plums, cherries and apricots and also of apples. The disease is usually recognized by the rotting of fruits, blasting of flowers and the killing of young stems. A brown spot appears on the fruit and may enlarge until the whole fruit is decayed. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: SPUR CANKER

Language Translations for "SPUR CANKER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

monilia (brown rot, brown rot of fruit trees), gul monilia (brown rot, brown rot of fruit trees), graa monilia (brown rot, brown rot of fruit trees). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

Monilia-rot tak-en bloesemsterfte (brown rot, brown rot of fruit trees), leerrot (brown rot, brown rot of fruit trees), bruinrot (Banana moko disease, brown rot, brown rot of fruit trees, Potato bacterial wilt, Potato slime disease, Tobacco granville wilt, Tomato southern bacterial wilt). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

versomuumiotauti (brown rot, brown rot of fruit trees), ruskolaho (brown rot, brown rot of fruit trees), muumiotauti (brown rot, brown rot of fruit trees). (various references)

   

French

  

rot brun des fruits, moniliose des arbres fruitiers. (various references)

   

German

  

Moniliakrankheit (brown rot, brown rot of fruit trees), Fruchtfäule (brown rot, brown rot of fruit trees), Braunfäule (blight). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

φαιά σήψη των οπωροφόρων (brown rot, brown rot of fruit trees). (various references)

   

Italian

  

mummificazione della frutta (brown rot, brown rot of fruit trees), muffa a circoli della frutta (brown rot, brown rot of fruit trees), marciume della frutta (brown rot, brown rot of fruit trees), marciume bruno (brown rot, brown rot of fruit trees), marciume (putrefaction, rot, rottenness). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

urspay ankercay

   

Portuguese

  

podridão parda (brown rot, brown rot of fruit trees), esclerotínia (brown rot, brown rot of fruit trees). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

podredumbre parda (brown rot, brown rot of fruit trees), podredumbre morena de los frutos (brown rot, brown rot of fruit trees), moniliosis de los frutos (brown rot, brown rot of fruit trees), momificación de los frutos (brown rot, brown rot of fruit trees), moho de las manzanas y peras (brown rot, brown rot of fruit trees). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

grå monilia (brown rot, brown rot of fruit trees), blom-och grentorka (brown rot, brown rot of fruit trees). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: SPUR CANKER

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Monilia fructigena, Monilia laxa, sclérotinia. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: SPUR CANKER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-k-n-p-r-r-s-u"

-1 letter: unpackers.

-2 letters: prancers, supercar, unpacker.

-3 letters: apercus, cankers, carpers, cranker, curares, currans, packers, parkers, parures, prancer, prances, pruners, puckers, punkers, rackers, rankers, repacks, reparks, reracks, scarper, scauper, scraper, spanker, sparker, sprucer, spurner, uncakes, unpacks, unspeak, uprears.

-4 letters: apercu, arpens, caners, canker, capers, carers, carper, carpus, casern, causer, cesura, crakes, cranes, cranks, crapes, creaks, curare.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Translations: Modern
2. Translations: Ancient
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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