proliferous adjective. [prǝ'lɪf(ǝ)rǝs] M17.
[from Latin proles offspring + -FEROUS.]
1. = PROLIFIC 1. Long rare or obsolete. M17.

2. Producing many flowers. rare. L17.

3. Botany. Producing flowers, vegetative shoots, etc., from a flower, spikelet, or other normally terminal part. Also, reproducing by offsets rather than by seed. E18.

4. Zoology. Reproducing or multiplying by budding; spec. (of a hydrozoan) producing sexual zooids. M19.

5. Medicine. Proliferative. L19.

■ proliferously adverb M19.

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