Usually means: Waxy substance from decomposed fat.
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  1. adipocere: Merriam-Webster
  2. adipocere: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. adipocere: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. adipocere: Collins English Dictionary
  5. adipocere: Wordnik
  6. adipocere: Wiktionary
  7. adipocere: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. adipocere: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. adipocere: Dictionary.com
  10. Adipocere: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Adipocere: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. adipocere: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Adipocere: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. adipocere: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. adipocere: FreeDictionary.org
  16. adipocere: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  17. adipocere: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. Adipocere: World Wide Words
  19. adipocere: Merriam-Webster

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  1. adipocere: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. adipocere: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  1. adipocere: The Limited Encyclopedia of Grave Terminology

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  1. adipocere: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (adipocere)

noun:  A brown, fatty, waxy substance (fatty acids) that forms on dead animal tissues in response to hydrolysis.

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