putrescent

adj

1. Becoming putrid; putrefying.

   “When it is combined with that quantity of water with which it is found united in the gall-bladder, it is not more putrescent than the serum of the blood”

   “This same reason accounts to a considerable extent for the fact, that soft steeping liquor, if seldom changed, becomes much more putrescent than hard water retained with the same barleys for a similar period in cistern.”

   “although in some instances these spores are elliptical and smooth, they are often coarsely warted and angular. The group in itself seems to be a very natural one, for the species are all soft and fleshy, and even more putrescent than”