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wet-rot

wet-rot is the alternative form of wet rot.

Meaning of wet rot

Noun

wet rot (uncountable)

  1. A soft rot in which the decayed tissues are markedly watery.
  2. Decay of timber by fungi that attack wood having high moisture content.
    • The planking near the waterline of a ship was most at risk from wet rot but was easily replaced.2004, Clive Wilkinson, The British Navy and the State in the Eighteenth Century

Questions about wet-rot

What is wet-rot the alternative form of?
Wet-rot is the alternative form of wet rot.

Words near wet-rot in the dictionary

  1. wet-mops
  2. wet-noodle
  3. wet-nurse
  4. wet-nurses
  5. wet-on-wet
  6. wet-rot
  7. wet-sand
  8. wet-sanded
  9. wet-sanding
  10. wet-sands
  11. wet-un

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