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Webster 1913 Edition
Putrescent
Pu-tres′cent
,Adj.
[L.
putrescens
, p. pr.of putrescere
to grow rotten, v. incho. fr. putrere
to be rotten. See Putrid
.] 1.
Becoming putrid or rotten.
Externally powerful, although
putrescent
at the core. Motley.
2.
Of or pertaining to the process of putrefaction;
as, a
. putrescent
smellWebster 1828 Edition
Putrescent
PUTRES'CENT
,Adj.
1.
Pertaining to the process of putrefaction; as a putrescent smell.Definition 2024
putrescent
putrescent
English
Adjective
putrescent (comparative more putrescent, superlative most putrescent)
- becoming putrid; putrefying
- 1791, George Fordyce, A treatise on the digestion of food, page 68:
- 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 blood
- 1885, Henry Stopes, Malt and malting, an historical, scientific, and practical treatise, page 48:
- 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.
- 2009, Mordecai Cubitt Cooke, Introduction to the Study of Fungi, Their Organography,, page 132:
- 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 than
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