putrescent

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They are anti-putrescent, and exert a laxative action corrective of bilious sluggishness.

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  1. adjective Becoming putrid; putrefying.
  2. adjective Of or relating to putrefaction.

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  1. Latin putrēscēns, putrēscent-, present participle of putrēscere, to rot, inchoative of putrēre, to be rotten, from puter, putr-, rotten; see pū̆- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Old French putrescent = Italian putrescente, from Latin putrescen(t-)s, present participle of putrescere, grow rotten, decay, freq. from putrere, be rotten or putrid: see putrid.
 

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/pjuˈtrɛsənt/
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