PROLIFEROUS • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Proliferous

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Proliferous adj.

(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 gemmae.

(Zool.)

(a)

Producing young by budding.

(b)

Producing sexual zooids by budding; said of the blastostyle of a hydroid.

(c)

Producing a cluster of branchlets from a larger branch; said of corals.

Proliferous cyst (Med.), a cyst that produces highly-organized or even vascular structures.

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Etymology of 'Proliferous'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Proliferous" Quotes from Famous Books

... branching-stemmed, small-growing kind, very proliferous, with roots along the main stems; branchlets upright, five-angled, with slightly raised points, or tubercles, upon which are ten short hair-like spines, arranged in a star, and surrounding three or four ...

— Cactus Culture For Amateurs • W. Watson