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wetrot

wetrot 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 wetrot

What is wetrot the alternative form of?
Wetrot is the alternative form of wet rot.

Words near wetrot in the dictionary

  1. wetproofed
  2. wetproofing
  3. wetproofs
  4. wetroom
  5. wetrooms
  6. wetrot
  7. wets
  8. wets down
  9. wets one's beak
  10. wets one's clay
  11. wets one's pants

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