Of plants (esp. fruit trees), or parts of plants: affected with canker or eaten into by a cankerworm. Also in figurative context.

Causing canker in plants; of the nature of or characteristic of canker or blight in plants; affected with canker or blight.

Of trees, fruit, etc.: affected with canker.

Having the scab or a similar skin-disease; covered with scab or scabs; = scabby, adj. 1. Of plants.

infested with grubs.

Agriculture. Of oats: Affected with sedging, n.

infested with phylloxera.

= phylloxerated adj.

a disease of many cultivated plants in which the roots are affected by characteristic galls, caused by infestation with nematodes of the genus Meloid…

(of plants) having the stems affected by a malady produced by the eelworm; hence stem-sickness.

transferred. Of trees: Infested with the scale insect.