Definitionn. in a state of progressive putrefaction
Last update: August 26, 2015
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The best-known disease of potatoes is caused by the growth of a fungus named Phytophihora infestans, within the tissues of the host plant, and this fungus has the peculiar property of piercing and breaking up the cellular tissues and setting up putrescence in the course of its growth. [Please select]
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Moreover, it turns very brown and, in a couple of days, becomes a mass of black putrescence. [Please select]
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By the next day, without changing shape, it has turned a repulsive brown; presently it dissolves into noisome putrescence. [Please select]
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What the larva of antiquity ate was live flesh and not putrescence. [Please select]
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Transcendent alchemists, they were transforming that horrible putrescence into a living and inoffensive product. [Please select]
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A general scavenger, the Burying-beetle refuses no sort of cadaveric putrescence. [Please select]
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A few adults, unquestionably connections of the brood, are also swarming amid the putrescence. [Please select]
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The adults discovered in the company of their larval family, in this putrescence which was a Rat, are all abominably verminous. [Please select]
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The primrose tint and the glossy skin are unequivocal signs of health: Were it really dead, it would, in less than twenty-four hours, turn a dirty brown and, soon after, decompose into a fluid putrescence. [Please select]
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There was in his mind the vision of those blood-baths of the Somme, where men had drowned in the putrescence and been flattened by shells like flies against a wall. [Please select]
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