Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not putrescible; not subject to putrefaction or corruption.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not putrescible.
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- adjective Not
putrescible .
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- adjective not subject to decay
Etymologies
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im- + putrescible
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Examples
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It remains for us to say here that the differences observable in the quantity of fixed tannin ought to arise chiefly from the different natures of these tannins, which have properties differing as do those of one plant from another, and which really have but one property in common, that of assimilating themselves with animal tissues and rendering them imputrescible.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 286, June 25, 1881 Various
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