proliferous
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.
Origin of proliferous
1Other words from proliferous
- non·pro·lif·er·ous, adjective
- un·pro·lif·er·ous, adjective
Words Nearby proliferous
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How to use proliferous in a sentence
It was not one of the destructive proliferous rats of the northern hemisphere.
More Science From an Easy Chair | Sir E. Ray (Edwin Ray) LankesterHere grew the Masarooth (Selinum palustre) with a proliferous umbel.
Lachesis Lapponica | Carl von LinnOn 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.
Lachesis Lapponica | Carl von LinnThe herbs I collected hereabouts were Mesomora (Cornus suecica) with a proliferous blossom.
Lachesis Lapponica | Carl von Linn
British Dictionary definitions for proliferous
/ (prəˈlɪfərəs) /
(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
Origin of proliferous
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