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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

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

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Becoming or growing putrid, or fetidly rotten; in course of putrefying; tainted with putrefaction or decay: as, putrescent flesh.
  2. Of or pertaining to the process of putrefaction: as, a putrescent smell.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. becoming putrid; putrefying

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Becoming putrid or rotten.
  2. adj. Of or pertaining to the process of putrefaction.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. becoming putrid

Etymologies

  1. Attested since circa 1730, from Latin putrescens, present participle of putresco. (Wiktionary)
  2. 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. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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