Proliferous

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Zoology Reproducing freely by means of buds and side branches, as corals do.
  • adj. Botany Freely producing buds or offshoots, especially from unusual places, as shoots from flowers or fruits from fruits.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. producing many offspring; prolific or proliferative
  • adj. producing many buds or offshoots from leaves or flowers
  • adj. reproducing by budding
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. 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.
  • adj.
  • adj. Producing young by budding.
  • adj. Producing sexual zooids by budding; -- said of the blastostyle of a hydroid.
  • adj. Producing a cluster of branchlets from a larger branch; -- said of corals.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Bearing offspring.
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