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putrescent (adj.)
1732, a back-formation from
putrescence
, or else from Latin
putrescentem
(nominative
putrescens
), present participle of
putrescere
"grow rotten, moulder, decay," inchoative of
putrere
"be rotten" (see
putrid
).
