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Meanings of putrescible in English

Liable to decay or spoil or become putrid.

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Examples for "spoilable"
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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...
2
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
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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
Usage of putrescible in English
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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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Where there is overcrowding, the collections of putrescible filth are multiplied, and with them probably the productive foci of infective particles.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887
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All putrescible matter liable to breed a pestilence is carried far from shore and sunk under fathoms of the never-stagnant sea.
Recreations in Astronomy / With Directions for Practical Experim...
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It is highly probable, judging from the results of experiments, that every collection of putrescible matter is potentially a productive focus of microbes.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887
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The importance of "Dutch cleanliness" in our houses, and the abolition of all collections of putrescible matter in and around our houses, is abundantly evident.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887
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