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putrescent en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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• /pjuˈtɹɛsənt/

Etymology

Attested since circa 1730, from Latin pūtrēscēns (“rotting”), present participle of pūtrēscō (“rot”).

Meanings

1. Becoming putrid; putrefying.
   • 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 2009, Mordecai Cubitt Cooke, Introduction to the Study of Fungi, Their Organography,, page 132:
   • 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 1791, 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:

Forms

Deriveds

putrescently · nonputrescent · antiputrescent

Translations (7)

es putrefacto (becoming putrid) · ja 腐り掛かった (becoming putrid) · cmn 將腐爛的 /将腐烂的 (becoming putrid) · ro putrescent (becoming putrid) · ca putrescent (becoming putrid) · la pūtrēscēns (becoming putrid) · fr putrescent (becoming putrid)