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Rottable vs Putrescible - What's the difference?

rottable | putrescible |

As adjectives the difference between rottable and putrescible

is that rottable is capable of rotting; biodegradable while putrescible is decomposable; capable of becoming putrescent; rottable.

rottable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Capable of rotting; biodegradable.
  • * 1998 , Maxwell G. Lay, Handbook of Road Technology: Planning and pavements
    • When pavement repairs were made, they were usually effected by filling holes and ruts with brush, branches, and other rottable organic material.

    putrescible

    English

    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.” }}