putrefactive Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite causing or promoting bacterial putrefaction
    putrefacient.

WordNet

Pu`tre*fac"tive adjective
Etymology
Cf. putréfactif. See Putrefy.
Definitions
  1. Of or pertaining to putrefaction; as, the putrefactive smell or process. Wiseman.
  2. Causing, or tending to promote, putrefaction. -- Pu``tre*fac"tive*ness, n.

Webster 1913