damp off

[for seedlings] to die from too much water. All the new plants damped off, and we had to buy some from the nursery. The little seedlings damped off and withered away.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Inge	ING-e (Danish, Norwegian, Swedish), ING-gə (German), ING-ə (Dutch)	Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, German, Dutch
Helga	['helgə]
Bohuslav	bo-hoo-SLAHV (Ukrainian)	Czech, Slovak, Ukrainian
Erasmus	-	Late Greek (Latinized)
Lidia	LEED-yah (Polish), LEE-dyah (Italian), LEE-dhyah (Spanish)	Polish, Italian, Spanish, Romanian
Scevola	-	Italian