putrescible
Americanadjective
noun
adjective
noun
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Etymology
Origin of putrescible
1790–1800; < Latin putrēsc ( ere ) to grow rotten + -ible
Example Sentences
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Where there is overcrowding, the collections of putrescible filth are multiplied, and with them probably the productive foci of infective particles.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887 by Various
Nuts have the great advantage that although richer in protein than is meat, they are much less putrescible.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting Battle Creek, Michigan, September 10 and 11, 1934 by Northern Nut Growers Association
Helmholtz separated a putrefying or a fermenting liquid from one which was simply putrescible or fermentable by a membrane which allowed the fluids to pass through and become intermixed, but stopped the passage of solids.
From Discourses Biological and Geological Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley
It is not because the boiled meats or vegetables are not putrescible or fermentable, as those who have had the misfortune to be in a ship supplied with unskilfully closed tins well know.
From Discourses Biological and Geological Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley
The white Cabbage is most putrescible; the red most emollient and pectoral.
From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie
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