PUTREFACIENT

putrefactive, putrefacient

(adjective) causing or promoting bacterial putrefaction

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

putrefacient (comparative more putrefacient, superlative most putrefacient)

Of, pertaining to, or causing putrefaction.

Noun

putrefacient (plural putrefacients)

That which causes putrefaction.

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25 February 2025

ENDLESSLY

(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”


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