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noble rot en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) A benevolent form of the fungus Botrytis cinerea which, in the right conditions, leads to a concentrated sweet wine.
    • ‘You said they occasionally deliberately infect the grapes with the noble rot,’ I said. 2019, Ben Aaronovitch, The October Man, Gollancz, page 20:

Relateds

botrytized

Translations (10)

nl edele rotting (fungus) · fr pourriture noble (fungus) · bg благородна плесен (fungus) · af edelvrot (fungus) · ja 貴腐 (fungus) · fi jalohome (fungus) · it muffa nobile (fungus) · sv ädelröta (fungus) · de Edelfäule (fungus) · pt podridão nobre (fungus)