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noun

Plant Pathology.

a decay of seasoned timber, resulting in its becoming brittle and crumbling to a dry powder, caused by various fungi.

any of various diseases of plants in which the rotted tissues are dry.

any concealed or unsuspected inner decay.

Origin:
1785–95

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verb (used without object), verb (used with object), dry-rot·ted, dry-rot·ting.

to undergo or cause to undergo the action or effects of dry rot.

Origin:
1865–70

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dry rot

—n
1.	crumbling and drying of timber, bulbs, potatoes, or fruit, caused by saprotrophic basidiomycetous fungi
2.	any fungus causing this decay, esp of the genus Merulius
3.	moral degeneration or corrupt practices, esp when previously unsuspected

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"The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot."

-Henry David Thoreau