Adjective

(en adjective)

Decomposable; capable of becoming putrescent; rottable.

* 1911 , ,

The burying of wood in water, which dissolves out or alters its putrescible constituents, has long been practised as a means of seasoning.

* 1995 , National Research Council (U.S.), Prudent Practices in the Laboratory: Handling and Disposing of Chemicals , page 158,

For waste that is putrescible or may be infectious, on-site incineration is ideal.

* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=April 24, author=James Barron, title=Museum Plans to Move to Its Symbolic Home, ‘Littler Italy’, work=New York Times citation

, passage=Some of the storefronts that sell dried clams and sea urchins and putrescible vegetables give it a kind of squalid character.” }}

Adjective

(-)

(chemistry) Of, relating to, or produced by oxidation.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-03

, author= , title=The Smallest Cell , volume=101, issue=2, page=83 , magazine= citation , passage=It is likely that the long evolutionary trajectory of Mycoplasma went from a reductive autotroph to oxidative heterotroph to a cell-wall–defective degenerate parasite. This evolutionary trajectory assumes the simplicity to complexity route of biogenesis, a point of view that is not universally accepted.}}