Crossword clues for putrescence
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Putrescence \Pu*tres"cence\, n. The state of being putrescent; putrescent matter.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, from Latin putrescentem (nominative putrescens), present participle of putrescere "grow rotten, moulder, decay," inchoative of putrere "be rotten" (see putrid).
Wiktionary
n. 1 The condition of being putrid; decay 2 Putrid matter
WordNet
n. in a state of progressive putrefaction [syn: putridness, rottenness, corruption]
the quality of rotting and becoming putrid [syn: rottenness]
Usage examples of "putrescence".
It is sometimes administered in scarlet and typhus fevers, and in all diseases in which there is a tendency to putrescence.
Even the blind-crab that had been feeding on them was dead, bits of mold and putrescence oozing from its mouth.
It took some time to persuade the Key Rabbit that we had really survived the terrible plague of ten thousand pestilential putrescences, but when we coaxed him out from under the bed, we made quite a happy little family group.
Afraid of what he might find, Sean didn't want to look under the dressings on the leg, but one of the minor claw wounds on Shadrach's belly was definitely infected already, weeping watery pus and emitting the first faint odor of putrescence.
In more than one farmyard they had found the middens to their liking and enthroned themselves there while they waited for the dead stock to attain the right stage of putrescence.