undecayed
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There Dr. Smith found his fish, rank but undecayed, on Trader Hunt's little ship.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The best contains some undecayed organic matter such as leaf-mold or partly decayed sods and some sand.
From Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition by Charles William Burkett
The ground throughout the forest is encumbered with fallen trunks, sometimes piled one on another to the depth of 20 or 30 feet, which, owing to the continuous moisture, remain undecayed for centuries.
From North America by Israel C. (Cook) Russell
Nevertheless, each hut would have been a reasonably strong post, on an emergency; the logs being bullet-proof, and still remaining undecayed and compact.
From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper
The flesh of these persons was entire and undecayed, of a brown dryish colour, produced by time, the flesh having adhered closely to the bones and sinews.
From Prehistoric Textile Art of Eastern United States Thirteenth Annual Report of the Beaurau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1891-1892, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896 pages 3-46 by William Henry Holmes