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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[L.

putrescens

, p. pr.of

putrescere

to grow rotten, v. incho. fr.

putrere

to be rotten. See

Becoming putrid or rotten.

Externally powerful, although

putrescent

at the core.

Motley.

Of or pertaining to the process of putrefaction;

as, a

putrescent

smell

Adj.

Becoming putrid; passing from an organized state into the constituent elements.

Pertaining to the process of putrefaction; as a putrescent smell.