"putrescent" meaning in English

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          "text": "When it is combined with that quantity of water with which it is found united in the gall-bladder, it is not more putrescent than the serum of the blood",
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          "ref": "1885, Henry Stopes, Malt and malting, an historical, scientific, and practical treatise, page 48:",
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          "ref": "2009, Mordecai Cubitt Cooke, Introduction to the Study of Fungi, Their Organography,, page 132:",
          "text": "although in some instances these spores are elliptical and smooth, they are often coarsely warted and angular. The group in itself seems to be a very natural one, for the species are all soft and fleshy, and even more putrescent than",
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        "Becoming putrid; putrefying."
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          "sense": "becoming putrid",
          "word": "將腐爛的"
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          "roman": "jiāngfǔlànde",
          "sense": "becoming putrid",
          "word": "将腐烂的"
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          "alt": "くさりかかった",
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          "roman": "kusarikakatta",
          "sense": "becoming putrid",
          "word": "腐り掛かった"
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          "sense": "becoming putrid",
          "word": "putrefacto"
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      "rhymes": "-ɛsənt"
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  "word": "putrescent"
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      "sense": "becoming putrid",
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