ceramic fracture

A form of transverse fracture in wood characteristic of the preferential degradation of cellulose by a wood decay fungus of the brown rot or soft rot type.

brown rot (wood decay),
cellulose,
decay,
fungi,
soft rot

This definition is abridged from A – Z of tree terms: A companion to British arboriculture.
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