wet rot
See also: wetrot and wet-rot
English
Alternative forms
- wetrot
- wet-rot
Noun
wet rot (uncountable)
- A soft rot in which the decayed tissues are markedly watery.
- 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.
- 2004, Clive Wilkinson, The British Navy and the State in the Eighteenth Century