dry-rot
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He responds, animatedly for once, to the suggestion that Graham Greene, quizzed about his plots, would reply in the style of a solicitor or dry-rot inspector talking about a house.
From The Guardian • Aug. 14, 2010
In the U.S. the work of termites was long mistaken for that of fungi and dry-rot which usually follow their riddlings.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is the only thing that will prevent what is known as the "dry-rot" from attacking her timbers.
From Harper's Young People, June 15, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various
Seasoning timber to prevent the dry-rot in ships, churches, and other buildings.
From Memorials of the Sea My Father: Being Records of the Adventurous Life of the Late William Scoresby, Esq. of Whitby by Scoresby, William
Merulius lacrymans, which is found chiefly in fir-wood, is the most common and most formidable dry-rot fungus in Britain; while Polypŏrus destructor is equally destructive in Germany.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde by Various
