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PERISHABLE |
Quick-decaying |
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DECOMPOSING |
Decaying |
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ROTTING |
Decaying |
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DECADENT |
Decaying; deteriorating. |
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PRESERVE |
Keep from decaying |
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ROTTEN |
Decomposing or decaying |
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PERISHING |
Decaying or rotting |
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MAGGOTS |
Larvae in decaying matter |
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COMPOST |
Decaying organic matter used as fertiliser |
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MARCESCENT |
Withering without/ falling off; fading; decaying. |
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CARIOUS |
Affected with caries; decaying; as, a carious tooth. |
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SENESCENT |
Growing old; decaying with the lapse of time. |
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ULMIN |
A brown amorphous substance found in decaying vegetation.
Cf. Humin. |
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FOG |
Dead or decaying grass remaining on land through the winter;
-- called also foggage. |
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AGARIC |
An old name for several species of Polyporus, corky fungi
growing on decaying wood. |
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NEURIDIN |
A nontoxic base, C5H14N2, found in the putrescent matters
of flesh, fish, decaying cheese, etc. |
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SAPROPHYTIC |
Feeding or growing upon decaying animal or vegetable
matter; pertaining to a saprophyte or the saprophytes. |
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SAPROPHAGAN |
One of a tribe of beetles which feed upon decaying
animal and vegetable substances; a carrion beetle. |
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MILDEW |
A growth of minute powdery or webby fungi, whitish or of
different colors, found on various diseased or decaying substances. |
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MYDATOXIN |
A poisonous amido acid, C6H13NO2, separated by Brieger
from decaying horseflesh. In physiological action, it is similar to
curare. |
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MANURE |
Any matter which makes land productive; a fertilizing
substance, as the contents of stables and barnyards, dung, decaying
animal or vegetable substances, etc. |
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TOADSTOOL |
A name given to many umbrella-shaped fungi, mostly of
the genus Agaricus. The species are almost numberless. They grow on
decaying organic matter. |
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MOULD |
A growth of minute fungi of various kinds, esp. those of the
great groups Hyphomycetes, and Physomycetes, forming on damp or
decaying organic matter. |
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CARCASS |
The abandoned and decaying remains of some bulky and once
comely thing, as a ship; the skeleton, or the uncovered or unfinished
frame, of a thing. |
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DURABLE |
Able to endure or continue in a particular condition;
lasting; not perishable or changeable; not wearing out or decaying
soon; enduring; as, durable cloth; durable happiness. |