Usually means: Fungus that grows in moisture.
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  1. mildew: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. mildew: Merriam-Webster
  3. mildew: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. mildew: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. mildew: Collins English Dictionary
  6. mildew: Vocabulary.com
  7. Mildew, mildew: Wordnik
  8. mildew: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. mildew: Wiktionary
  10. mildew: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. mildew: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. mildew: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. mildew: Dictionary.com
  14. mildew: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. mildew: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Mildew: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Mildew: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. mildew: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. mildew: Rhymezone
  20. Mildew: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. mildew: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. mildew: FreeDictionary.org
  23. mildew: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. mildew: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  2. mildew: Legal dictionary

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  1. mildew: Encyclopedia

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  1. mildew: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. mildew: Medical dictionary

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  1. MILDEW: Acronym Finder

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  1. Mildew: Easton Bible

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  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

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  1. mildew: Urban Dictionary

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  2. Mildew: Building pathology glossary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (phytopathology) A growth of minute powdery or webby fungi, whitish or of different colors, found on various diseased or decaying substances.
verb:  (transitive) To taint with mildew.
verb:  (intransitive) To become tainted with mildew.

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