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Meanings of putrefacient in English

Causing or promoting bacterial putrefaction.

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Examples for "putrefactive"
1
Retardation of the putrefactive process has been noticed in bodies some years under water.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
2
The treated samples, however, had no smell originally, and remain sweet, without putrefactive change.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 799, April 25, 1891
3
Their activity may be productive of a poison, or putrefactive alkaloid, which is absorbed.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 787, January 31, 1891
4
Saccharine is a mineral substance, a fossilised product of putrefactive action in the coal age.
The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 / The Independent Health Ma...
5
A putrefactive fermentation is thus set up which softens the gummy substance holding the fibres together.
The Story of Germ Life