Putrescent
Origin
Attested since circa 1730, from Latin putrescens, present participle of putresco.
Full definition of putrescent
Adjective
putrescent
- becoming putrid; putrefying
- 1791, George Fordyce, A treatise on the digestion of food, 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, 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, , 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 ----