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View synonyms for proliferous

proliferous

[ pruh-lif-er-uhs ]

adjective

  1. Botany.
    1. producing new individuals by budding or the like.
    2. 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

  1. (of plants) producing many side branches or offshoots and normally reproducing vegetatively by buds or by plantlets produced in the inflorescence
  2. (of certain animals) reproducing by means of buds, etc
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Other Words From

  • nonpro·lifer·ous adjective
  • unpro·lifer·ous adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of proliferous1

1645–55; < Medieval Latin prōlifer bearing offspring + -ous. See prolicide, -ferous
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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.

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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