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proliferous
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pro·lif·er·ous
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ər
əs
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adjective
1.
proliferating.
2.
Botany
.
a.
producing new individuals by budding or the like.
b.
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:
1645–55;
<
Medieval Latin
prōlifer
bearing offspring +
-ous.
See
prolicide
,
-ferous
Related forms
non·pro·lif·er·ous,
adjective
un·pro·lif·er·ous,
adjective
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organism with having only one complete set of chromosomes
plants without a xylem and phloem to transport fluid and nutrients internally
sexual form of a haploid plant in the alternation of generations
composed of several cells
phase in plant life which begins with a spore produced by meiosis
plants with the vascular tissues xylem and phloem for transporting water and nutrients
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proliferous
(prəˈlɪfərəs)
—
adj
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
[C17: from Medieval Latin
prōlifer
having offspring]
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