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
Nevertheless, the evil attending this type of teaching is, to our thinking, great and serious, designed to undermine selfhood and to set up a species of dry-rot at the very centre.
From Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive by Warschauer, Joseph
His bed is a hollow made in red dry-rot punky dust beside a log which forms a portion of the south wall of the corral.
From My First Summer in the Sierra by Muir, John
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
