putrescent
adj/pjuˈtɹɛsənt/
Etymology Attested since circa 1730, from Latin pūtrēscēns (“rotting”), present participle of pūtrēscō (“rot”).
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Becoming putrid; putrefying.
- When it is combined with that quantity of water with which it is found united in the gall-bladder, it is not more putrescent than the serum of the blood1791, George Fordyce, A treatise on the digestion of food, page 68:
- This same reason accounts to a considerable extent for the fact, that soft steeping liquor, if seldom changed, becomes much more putrescent than hard water retained with the same barleys for a similar period in cistern.1885, Henry Stopes, Malt and malting, an historical, scientific, and practical treatise, page 48:
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- although in some instances these spores are elliptical and smooth, they are often coarsely warted and angular. The group in itself seems to be a very natural one, for the species are all soft and fleshy, and even more putrescent than2009, Mordecai Cubitt Cooke, Introduction to the Study of Fungi, Their Organography,, page 132:
- Derived terms
- antiputrescent, nonputrescent, putrescently