wet rot
English
Noun
- 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
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