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Dry rot   /draɪ rɑt/   Listen
Dry rot

noun
1.
A crumbling and drying of timber or bulbs or potatoes or fruit caused by a fungus.
2.
A fungus causing dry rot.





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"Dry rot" Quotes from Famous Books



... doctor, "I doubt if ever I've seen a cloud above it—much less on it! If it weren't for the creek yonder the whole post would shrivel up and blow away. Even the hygrometer's dead of disuse—or dry rot. But, talk of drying up, did you ever see the beat of him?" and the doctor was studying anatomy as ...
— Tonio, Son of the Sierras - A Story of the Apache War • Charles King
... next paper it is proposed to deal with the so-called "dry rot" in timber which has been felled and cut up—a disease which has produced much distress at various times ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 • Various
... illustration of the value of the constant renewal of society from the bottom that has always interested me profoundly. The only reason why government did not suffer dry rot in the Middle Ages under the aristocratic system which then prevailed was that so many of the men who were efficient instruments of government were drawn from the church,—from that great religious body which was then the only church, that body which we now distinguish from ...
— The New Freedom - A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People • Woodrow Wilson


Words linked to "Dry rot" :   plant disease, fungus


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