Proliferous

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  • 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. undefined
  • 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • 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."
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