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Meanings of putrescent in English

Putrescent.

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Usage of putrescent in English
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An impossible scheme of reconstruction was trailing its slow, putrescent length along.
Marse Henry (Volume 2) / An Autobiography
2
The Boleti grow on the ground, are fleshy and putrescent with central stems.
Among the Mushrooms: A Guide For Beginners
3
The next morning the strange orchid still lay there, black now and putrescent.
The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories
4
The face itself was made of flesh green and almost putrescent.
The Enormous Room
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Henry was again reminded of tomatoes going quietly putrescent in some shadowy shed corner.
IT
6
I lowered the flashlight and at once discovered the source of the putrescent smell.
Seize the night
7
The uncle's attempts at finding out information on those putrescent issues were only marginally successful.
Corpus of a Siam Mosquito
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She was rotting below him, skin melting away into a putrescent crimson film of mucus.
The Reality Dysfunction
9
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
10
Like an immense putrescent sore, the jungle lay exposed below the open hatchway of the helicopter.
The Drowned World
11
Black Avaia, putrescent death in the air, returning to claim her victim for a second time.
The darkest road
12
He recoiled at the carnage spread across the clearing below; the blend of putrescent odors was staggering.
Genellan: planetfall
13
Rooted in slime, malodorous and malarious, they form a putrescent paradise for all manner of loathly creatures.
Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary
14
My jaws were a cavern of dripping silver and through my veins ran rivers of putrescent gold.
Poe's children: the new horror : an anthology
15
Ivanenko stepped back and started shaking his head, refusing to take hold of the putrescent, disintegrating bodies.
Metro 2034
16
Or at least it is if you're eight years old and enjoy dressing up as a putrescent corpse.
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