adjective.
Reproducing freely by means of buds and side branches, as corals do.
adjective.
Freely producing buds or offshoots, especially from unusual places, as shoots from flowers or fruits from fruits.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Bearing offspring.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adjective.
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 gemmæ.
adjective.
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adjective.
Producing young by budding.
adjective.
Producing sexual zooids by budding; -- said of the blastostyle of a hydroid.
adjective.
Producing a cluster of branchlets from a larger branch; -- said of corals.
adjective.
a cyst that produces highly-organized or even vascular structures.
adjective.
producing many offspring; prolific or proliferative
adjective.
producing many buds or offshoots from leaves or flowers
adjective.
reproducing by budding
Word Usage
"In some of the instances of so-called proliferous pears the carpels would seem to be entirely absent, and the dilated portion of the axis to be alone repeated."