dry rot

1. 1.

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

   Broaderplant disease
2. 2.

   a fungus causing dry rot

   Broaderfungus

Questions about dry rot

What does dry rot mean?

dry rot means "a crumbling and drying of timber or bulbs or potatoes or fruit caused by a fungus". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is dry rot a common word?

dry rot is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.