wet rot

See also: wetrot and wet-rot

English

Alternative forms

• wetrot
• 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.
   • 2004, Clive Wilkinson, The British Navy and the State in the Eighteenth Century‎^[1]:

     The planking near the waterline of a ship was most at risk from wet rot but was easily replaced.