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canker
O.E.
cancer
, from L.
cancer
(see
cancer
); influenced in M.E. by O.N.Fr.
cancre
(Mod.Fr.
chancre
). The word was the common one for "cancer" until c.1700.
Canker blossom
is recorded from 1580s.
