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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
putrescent
 
SYLLABICATION:pu·tres·cent
PRONUNCIATION:  py-trsnt
ADJECTIVE:1. Becoming putrid; putrefying. 2. Of or relating to putrefaction.
ETYMOLOGY:Latin putrscns, putrscent-, present participle of putrscere, to rot, inchoative of putrre, to be rotten, from puter, putr-, rotten. See p- in Appendix I.
 
 
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