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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
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Example Sentences
It was not one of the destructive proliferous rats of the northern hemisphere.
Here grew the Masarooth (Selinum palustre) with a proliferous umbel.
On the other hand, Verlot gives several cases of proliferous flowers which can be propagated by seed.
The calyx therefore, contrary to the nature of the common Polytrichum, is proliferous from its base.
The herbs I collected hereabouts were Mesomora (Cornus suecica) with a proliferous blossom.
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