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Meanings of decayable in English
Liable to decay or spoil or become putrid.
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Examples for "putrescible"
Examples for "putrescible"
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The model demonstrated that only the putrescible solid waste was totally converted to methane.
2
By means of a membrane, he separated a sterilised putrescible liquid from a putrefying one.
3
It is also precipitated by tannin, which combines with it to form an insoluble non-putrescible compound.
4
Fed with such air, in the great majority of cases the putrescible liquids remained perfectly sweet after boiling.
5
We have now to devise a means of testing the action of such spontaneously purified air upon putrescible infusions.
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Ice-storage pits held dairy products, meats, and other spoilable foods as well as ice.
2
The Princess would spoil me were I spoilable.
3
The children worshipped him; and if he had been spoilable, my wife would surely have been his undoing.
4
The children worshiped him, and if he had been spoilable my wife would surely have been his undoing.
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The presence of putrefiable or putrescent matter determines at once the germination of the always-present spore.