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Meanings of putrefiable in English

Liable to decay or spoil or become putrid.

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        The model demonstrated that only the putrescible solid waste was totally converted to methane.
        Pubmed
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        By means of a membrane, he separated a sterilised putrescible liquid from a putrefying one.
        Fragments of Science: A Series of Detached Essays, Addresses, an...
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        It is also precipitated by tannin, which combines with it to form an insoluble non-putrescible compound.
        Forty Centuries of Ink / Or, A chronological narrative concernin...
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        Fed with such air, in the great majority of cases the putrescible liquids remained perfectly sweet after boiling.
        Fragments of Science: A Series of Detached Essays, Addresses, an...
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        We have now to devise a means of testing the action of such spontaneously purified air upon putrescible infusions.
        Fragments of Science: A Series of Detached Essays, Addresses, an...
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        Ice-storage pits held dairy products, meats, and other spoilable foods as well as ice.
        New Discoveries at Jamestown / Site of the First Successful Engl...
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        The Princess would spoil me were I spoilable.
        Patsy
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        The children worshipped him; and if he had been spoilable, my wife would surely have been his undoing.
        South Sea Tales
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        The children worshiped him, and if he had been spoilable my wife would surely have been his undoing.
        Stories from Everybody's Magazine
        Usage of putrefiable in English
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        The presence of putrefiable or putrescent matter determines at once the germination of the always-present spore.
        Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885
        Putrefiable through the time