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necrotic
adjective as in lethal
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You are aware it is hot — it smells hot, which isn’t something easy to explain — but then transcends its smell into something necrotic.
In the next field over, rows of young iceberg lettuce seedlings were ribbed with streaks of tawny brown—the mark of the impatiens necrotic spot virus, or INSV, which has been wreaking havoc on Salinas lettuce since the mid-aughts.
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On this page you'll find 27 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to necrotic, such as: dangerous, destructive, devastating, fatal, harmful, and malignant.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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