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View synonyms for proliferous
proliferous
[ pruh-lif-er-uhs ]
adjective
- Botany.
- producing new individuals by budding or the like.
- producing an organ or shoot from an organ that is itself normally the last, as a shoot or a new flower from the midst of a flower.
proliferous
/ prəˈlɪfərəs /
adjective
- (of plants) producing many side branches or offshoots and normally reproducing vegetatively by buds or by plantlets produced in the inflorescence
- (of certain animals) reproducing by means of buds, etc
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Other Words From
- nonpro·lifer·ous adjective
- unpro·lifer·ous adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of proliferous1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of proliferous1
C17: from Medieval Latin prōlifer having offspring
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Example Sentences
It was not one of the destructive proliferous rats of the northern hemisphere.
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Here grew the Masarooth (Selinum palustre) with a proliferous umbel.
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On the other hand, Verlot gives several cases of proliferous flowers which can be propagated by seed.
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The calyx therefore, contrary to the nature of the common Polytrichum, is proliferous from its base.
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The herbs I collected hereabouts were Mesomora (Cornus suecica) with a proliferous blossom.
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