dry-rot
Example Sentences
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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
This dry-rot fungus perhaps enters the trunk by way of the stumps of limbs broken off by the snow that loads the broad palmate branches.
From My First Summer in the Sierra by Muir, John
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
The mouldings and ornaments were in the most superb fashion of its age; but the whole was falling to pieces, from the effects of the dry-rot.
From A Morning's Walk from London to Kew by Phillips, Richard
