putrescent
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Pu·tres′cent adjective
Origin: 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.— John Lothrop Motley
2. Of or pertaining to the process of putrefaction; as, a putrescent smell.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54