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Piles of dead and liquescent bats seemed a bad sign, potentially invalidating the hypothesis that Rousettus aegyptiacus might be a reservoir host of Marburg.—David Quammen, Popular Science, 15 Oct. 2012
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Latin liquescent-, liquescens, present participle of liquescere to become fluid, inchoative of liquēre
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