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decayed wood

Term · Agriculture and food · MLC-T-AGR-001730

The decomposition of wood substance by fungi.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-AGR-001730
FieldAgriculture and food
SubjectForestry, Wildland Management
Synonymsdecayed timber; timber decay; wood decay
ReferencesForest Products Laboratory. 2010. Wood handbook - Wood as an engineering material. Gen. Tech. Rep. FPL-GTR-190. Madison, WI: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory; NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary
See alsowood degradation; decay resistance; decay fungi; wood dust; muck soils; wood spalting
TranslationsSpanish: madera deteriorada
Record as JSON
{
  "id": "MLC-T-AGR-001730",
  "term": "decayed wood",
  "field": "Agriculture and food",
  "definition": "The decomposition of wood substance by fungi.",
  "synonyms": [
    "decayed timber",
    "timber decay",
    "wood decay"
  ],
  "subject": "Forestry, Wildland Management",
  "see_also": [
    "wood degradation",
    "decay resistance",
    "decay fungi",
    "wood dust",
    "muck soils",
    "wood spalting"
  ],
  "references": [
    "Forest Products Laboratory. 2010. Wood handbook - Wood as an engineering material. Gen. Tech. Rep. FPL-GTR-190. Madison, WI: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory",
    "NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary"
  ],
  "translations": {
    "es": "madera deteriorada"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/agriculture/decayed-wood/"
}

Record 1,730 of 6,908 in Agriculture and food terminology (MLC-0114). Request the full dataset.