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canker sores

canker sores is the plural of canker sore.

Meaning of canker sore

Noun

canker sore (plural canker sores)

  1. An ulcer in the mouth, called an aphthous ulcer, caused by a break in the mucous membrane.

Questions about canker sores

What is canker sores the plural of?
Canker sores is the plural of canker sore.

Words near canker sores in the dictionary

  1. canker
  2. canker flies
  3. canker fly
  4. canker rash
  5. canker sore
  6. canker sores
  7. cankered
  8. cankeredly
  9. cankeredness
  10. cankering
  11. cankerlike

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Adapted from Wiktionary: canker sores (page history and authors); canker sore (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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