wet rot

See also: wetrot and wet-rot

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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.
    • 2004, Clive Wilkinson, The British Navy and the State in the Eighteenth Century‎:
      The planking near the waterline of a ship was most at risk from wet rot but was easily replaced.
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