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putrescences

putrescences is the plural of putrescence.

Meaning of putrescence

Noun

putrescence (countable and uncountable, plural putrescences)

  1. The condition of being putrid; decay
  2. Putrid matter
    • Hot, and precipitate, and zealous, as has been the assiduity, with which the public eye is blinkled by this glittering putrescence of rotten policy, and the public ear is deaffened by a vapid and senseless jargon of political bombast, …1791, Presbyterio-Catholicon

Questions about putrescences

What is putrescences the plural of?
Putrescences is the plural of putrescence.

Words near putrescences in the dictionary

  1. putrefying
  2. putresce
  3. putresced
  4. putrescein
  5. putrescence
  6. putrescences
  7. putrescencies
  8. putrescency
  9. putrescene
  10. putrescenes
  11. putrescent

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