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Definition of Decaying
1. decay [v] - See also: decay
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decaying
Literary usage of Decaying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report (1904)
"Beardslee. Hydnum ochraceum Pers. decaying limbs, in woods. Common. Hydnum repandum
L. Woods. Common. Hydnum septentrionale Fr. Dead trunks. Uncommon. ..."
2. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun, F. W. Oliver (1895)
"ABSORPTION OF ORGANIC MATTER FROM decaying PLANTS AND ANIMALS. Saprophytes and
their relation to decaying bodies.—Saprophytes in water, on the bark of trees ..."
3. A Textbook of Geology by Amadeus William Grabau (1920)
"ACCUMULATION OF decaying ORGANIC MATTER FROM ANIMAL TISSUES, AND FROM NON-VASCULAR
PLANTS As we have previously seen, there is in every pond or lake a ..."
4. Transactions of the Canadian Institute by Canadian Institute (1849-1914), Royal Canadian Institute (1904)
"decaying SAWDUST. One objection frequently urged against the practice of throwing
sawdust into streams and rivers is that the decaying sawdust imparts such ..."
5. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau (1873)
"... and remind me of the ruddy morning of youth ; as surely as the last strain of
music which falls on my decaying ear shall make age to be forgotten, or, ..."
6. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"Many leaves had fallen, and iv sodden and decaying in the garden path, and the
few remaining flowers looked as if they only lingered to bid us a last ..."
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