undecayed

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There Dr. Smith found his fish, rank but undecayed, on Trader Hunt's little ship.

From Time Magazine Archive

Decayed vegetation, well mixed with the soil, increases the soil's water-holding capacity, but undecayed material in the bottom of the furrow is harmful.

From Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement by Agee, Alva

His strength is in his one great fact,—that these cities are older than any known to profane history, and that they yet exist undecayed and undecaying.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 by Various

Everything looked new and undecayed, and even the order in which the objects were arranged suggested a tidying-up done that very morning.

From The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology by Weigall, Arthur E. P. B.

The pagans also believed that the bodies of the dead rested not, neither were they safe from magical evocations, so long as they remained unconsumed by fire, or undecayed underground.

From The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. by Christmas, Henry