Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Zoology Reproducing freely by means of buds and side branches, as corals do.
- adjective Botany Freely producing buds or offshoots, especially from unusual places, as shoots from flowers or fruits from fruits.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Bearing offspring.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Bearing offspring; -- applied to a flower from within which another is produced, or to a branch or frond from which another rises, or to a plant which is reproduced by buds or gemmæ.
- adjective Producing young by budding.
- adjective Producing sexual zooids by budding; -- said of the blastostyle of a hydroid.
- adjective Producing a cluster of branchlets from a larger branch; -- said of corals.
- adjective (Med.) a cyst that produces highly-organized or even vascular structures.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective producing many
offspring ;prolific orproliferative - adjective botany producing many
buds oroffshoots fromleaves orflowers - adjective zoology reproducing by
budding
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In some of the instances of so-called proliferous pears the carpels would seem to be entirely absent, and the dilated portion of the axis to be alone repeated.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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It was made for Bishop Lothar Franz von Schönborn (reigned from 1693 until 1729; he was also Elector-Archsbishop of Mainz, and one of the most famous and proliferous builders of the German baroque), whose coat of arms is embroidered on the seam:
Catholic Bamberg: The Vestments of Pope Clement II and Other Treasures from the Diocesan Museum 2009
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For example: an amoeba might gaily multiply itself into proliferous plurality, gobbling up all the sugary water in the vicinity -- until there is no more sugar and too many amoebae, who then all abruptly die.
Rabbi Arthur Waskow: Fracking & Fukushima: More Obscene Than The Word They Sound Like Rabbi Arthur Waskow 2011
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For example: an amoeba might gaily multiply itself into proliferous plurality, gobbling up all the sugary water in the vicinity -- until there is no more sugar and too many amoebae, who then all abruptly die.
Rabbi Arthur Waskow: Fracking & Fukushima: More Obscene Than The Word They Sound Like Rabbi Arthur Waskow 2011
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For example: an amoeba might gaily multiply itself into proliferous plurality, gobbling up all the sugary water in the vicinity -- until there is no more sugar and too many amoebae, who then all abruptly die.
Rabbi Arthur Waskow: Fracking & Fukushima: More Obscene Than The Word They Sound Like Rabbi Arthur Waskow 2011
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For example: an amoeba might gaily multiply itself into proliferous plurality, gobbling up all the sugary water in the vicinity -- until there is no more sugar and too many amoebae, who then all abruptly die.
Rabbi Arthur Waskow: Fracking & Fukushima: More Obscene Than The Word They Sound Like Rabbi Arthur Waskow 2011
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Both are proliferous ground-covering plants indigenous to the Andean moor ecosystem (bofedales).
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Not only does it represent the integration of the existing proliferous and dispersed legislation, but it is also wholly conceived as a national health system, because it totally regulates the fundamental aspects of this state activity.
ANPP SESSION 1983
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By now the proliferous gaming houses, the interstellar numbers service, the randoma-tic sweepstakes, were only froth on the Wheel's activities; the Wheel alone, for instance, had the ability to keep the huge interstellar economy running smoothly, applying to the stock and commodity exchanges the same randomatic principles that governed the fermat networks.
The Grand Wheel Bayley, Barrington J. 1977
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It is also true that Algeria, from a financial and an economic point of view, will remain, even after peace is restored, a terrific drain on her resources, because it is not a rich country, and because its Moslem population is extremely proliferous.
The Algerian Issue 1958
reesetee commented on the word proliferous
In zoology, reproducing freely by means of buds and side branches, as corals do. In botany, freely producing buds or offshoots, especially from unusual places, such as shoots from flowers or fruits from fruits.
November 19, 2007