Dry Rot

Definition: Dry Rot

Dry Rot

Noun

1. A crumbling and drying of timber or bulbs or potatoes or fruit caused by a fungus.

2. A fungus causing dry rot.

Domain	Definition
Literature	Dry Rot The spontaneous rot of timber or wall-paper, not unfrequently produced by certain fungi attaching themselves thereto. It is called dry rot because the wood is not purposely exposed to wet, although, without doubt, damp from defective ventilation is largely present, and the greenness of wood employed contributes greatly to the decay. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Bane	Rust, worm, helminth, moth, moth and rust, fungus, mildew; dry rot; canker, cankerworm; cancer; torpedo; viper; (evil doer); demon.
Deterioration	Decay, dilapidation, ravages of time, wear and tear; corrosion, erosion; moldiness, rottenness; moth and rust, dry rot, blight, marasmus, atrophy, collapse; disorganization; delabrement; (destruction).; aphid, Aphis, plant louse, puceron; vinefretter, vinegrub.
Uncleanness	Defilement, contamination; Verb: defoedation; soilure, soiliness; abomination; leaven; taint, tainture; fetor. decay; putrescence, putrefaction; corruption; mold, must, mildew, dry rot, mucor, rubigo.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Dry Rot

English words defined with "dry rot": genus Fusarium ♦ leak fungus ♦ Powder post, Powder-posted ♦ Rhizopus stolonifer, ring rot fungus ♦ sap rot, sweet-potato ring rot ♦ White cedar. (references)

Specialty definitions using "dry rot": HOUSE-MOVER SUPERVISOR. (references)

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Dry Rot (1956)
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Domain	Title
Books	Dry Rot in the Ivory Tower (reference) Dry Rot and Daffodils: Life in a National Trust House (Ulverscroft Large Print Series) [LARGE PRINT] (reference) Protecting Buildings: How to Combat Dry Rot, Woodworm and Damp. 156P (reference) (more book examples)
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Expression using "dry rot": dry rot of grapes. Additional references.
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The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "dry rot"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		kalbëzim i drurit në të thatë. (various references)

Arabic		‏فساد (blight, corruption, decay, decomposition, degeneration, depravation, depravity, deterioration, disintegration, immorality, invalidity, perversion, perversity, putrefaction, putridity, rot, rottenness), ‏إصابة بالنحر الجاف, ‏أصاب بالنخر الجاف. (various references)

Bulgarian		морално разложение, болест по дърветата (canker, red rot). (various references)

Czech		mravní zkáza (depravity). (various references)

Danish		toerforraadnelse (water-conducting rot), tørkeråd/mokosyge (Moko disease), tørforrådnelse hos kartofler (blight), lagerråd, hussvamp (water-conducting rot), blå slimskimmel. (various references)

Dutch		droogrot (water-conducting rot), moko (Moko disease). (various references)

Finnish		kuivamätä (Moko disease), kuivalaho (Moko disease, water-conducting rot). (various references)

French		pourriture sèche du bois, pourriture sèche, maladie de Moko, mérule, fusariose, champignon des maisons, champignon des charpentes. (various references)

German		Trockenfäule (water-conducting rot). (various references)

Greek		ξηρή σήψη, ξήρανση των ριζών (Moko disease). (various references)

Hungarian		korhadás (corruption, dry-rot, festering, rot). (various references)

Italian		putrefazione secca, marciume secco (Moko disease, water-conducting rot), fusariosi, carie secca (brown rot, dry caries, water-conducting rot), cancrena secca (Moko disease). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		乾燥腐朽 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		か�"そうふきゅう. (various references)

Manx		froghid. (various references)

Pig Latin		ydray otray

Portuguese		doença de Moko (Moko disease), putrefação fungosa, podridão seca (conk, Moko disease, punk, touchwood), podridão dos canais condutores de água (water-conducting rot). (various references)

Romanian		putrezire a lemnului, lemn putrezit, încingerea lemnului. (various references)

Russian		сухая гниль. (various references)

Scottish		musgan (dry rot in wood, dry-rot in wood). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		trulež (decay, rot). (various references)

Spanish		sérpula (water-conducting rot), pudrición seca (Moko disease), podredumbre seca, Moko (Moko disease). (various references)

Swedish		torröta (water-conducting rot). (various references)

Turkish		yozlaşma (degeneracy, degeneration, devolution, gangrene, graft, retrogression, taint), çürüme (corruption, decay, decomposition, putrefaction, rot, rottenness), çürük (bad, bruise, carious, cavity, contusion, decay, decayed, dicky, draft-exempt, feeble, flimsy, putrefacient, putrefactive, putrid, rickety, rocky, rotten, sleazy, tooth decay, unsound, wonky). (various references)

Ukrainian		трухлятина (putridity), моральний розклад (putrefaction). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	Fusarium coeruleum, Fusarium solani var.caeruleum. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-o-r-r-t-y"
	-1 letter: dorty.
	-2 letters: dorr, dory, doty, ryot, tody, torr, tory, trod, troy, tyro.
	-3 letters: dor, dot, dry, ort, rod, rot, tod, tor, toy, try, yod.
	-4 letters: do, od, or, oy, to, yo.
	Words containing the letters "d-o-r-r-t-y"
	+2 letters: hydrator, torridly.
	+3 letters: courtyard, decretory, destroyer, directory, dormitory, erythroid, hydrators, martyrdom, portrayed, predatory, roystered, torridity.
	+4 letters: adjuratory, bardolatry, courtyards, dehydrator, derogatory, destroyers, hydrometer, martyrdoms, pyrethroid, radiometry, redemptory, reportedly, roadworthy, storyboard, trihydroxy, understory.
	+5 letters: cryptorchid, declaratory, dehydrators, denigratory, deprecatory, depredatory, hydrometeor, hydrometers, hydrometric, hydrothorax, hydrotropic, parathyroid, predicatory, purportedly, pyrethroids, rehydration, storyboards.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
dry rot	76
dry rot repair	18
dry rot tire	6
dry rot treatment	6
dry rot wood	4
dry rot treatment uk	4
dry rot rot wet woodworm	3
boat dry rot	3
dry rot wet	2
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Dry Rot

Definition: Dry Rot

Dry Rot

Noun

Specialty Definition: Dry Rot

Synonyms within Context: Dry Rot

Bane

Deterioration

Uncleanness

Crosswords: Dry Rot

Modern Usage: Dry Rot

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Illustrations:Dry Rot

Expression: Dry Rot

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Dry Rot

Modern Translation: Dry Rot

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