Usually means: Decay of wood by fungi.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. dry-rot, dry rot: Merriam-Webster
  2. dry rot: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dry rot: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dry rot: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dry-rot, dry rot: Vocabulary.com
  6. dry-rot, dry rot: Wordnik
  7. dry rot: Wiktionary
  8. dry rot: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. dry rot: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Dry rot, dry-rot, dry rot: Dictionary.com
  11. Dry Rot (film), Dry rot: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. dry-rot, dry rot: Rhymezone
  13. Dry Rot: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  14. dry-rot, dry rot: FreeDictionary.org
  15. dry-rot, dry rot: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. dry-rot, dry rot: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. dry rot: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  18. dry-rot: Wiktionary
  19. dry rot: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dry-rot, dry rot: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dry rot: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dry Rot: Bicycle Glossary

Definitions from Wiktionary (dry rot)

noun:  The crumbly, decayed portions of wooden members of buildings, especially at or below grade, usually caused by a fungal infection.
noun:  (figurative) Any progression of decay, corruption, or obsolescence.
noun:  (phytopathology) A fungal infection which affects plants, in particular potatoes.

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