putrescent

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English

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Etymology

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

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putrescent (comparative more putrescent, superlative most putrescent)

  1. 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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French

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Etymology

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From Latin putrēscēns.

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  • IPA(key): /py.tʁɛ.sɑ̃/ ~ /py.tʁe.sɑ̃/

Adjective

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putrescent (feminine putrescente, masculine plural putrescents, feminine plural putrescentes)

  1. putrescent

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Latin

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Verb

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putrēscent

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of putrēscō

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French putrescent.

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Adjective

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putrescent m or n (feminine singular putrescentă, masculine plural putrescenți, feminine and neuter plural putrescente)

  1. putrescent

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