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Definition of Putrescences
1. putrescence [n] - See also: putrescence
Lexicographical Neighbors of Putrescences
Literary usage of Putrescences
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lectures on Scripture Facts by William Bengo Collyer (1813)
"These putrescences, formed after this manner from the moisture of the earth
extracted by the warmth, by night were nourished from the clouds spread all ..."
2. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1861)
"Indeed, that we may thus deodorize and store away in the most convenient manner,
all animal and vegetable putrescences that we can collect upon our farms, ..."
3. The Magazine of History with Notes and Queries (1920)
"... winds and destroying frosts; and withholds that fertilizing wash which the
forest, from its decayed leaves and other putrescences, abundantly yields. ..."
4. Gabriele Zerbi, Gerontocomia: On the Care of the Aged and Maximianus ...by Gabriele de Zerbis, Levi Robert Lind by Gabriele de Zerbis, Levi Robert Lind (1988)
"... and the kidneys although it depletes the chest and lungs of the heterogeneous
humor which is quickly mixed with other putrescences which are convertible ..."
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