Definitions

proliferous

[pruh-lif-er-uhs] / prəˈlɪf ər əs /

ADJECTIVE

fertile

Synonyms

WEAK

abundant arable bearing black bountiful breeding breedy bringing forth childing fecund feracious flowering flowing with milk and honey fruitful generative gravid hebetic loamy lush luxuriant plenteous plentiful pregnant procreant producing productive proliferant prolific puberal pubescent rank rich spawning teeming uberous vegetative virile with child yielding

Example Sentences

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“Banded Tunic With Proliferous Patterns,” one of the earlier tunics on view, contains zigzags and stepped spirals within broad stripes.

From New York Times • Apr. 22, 2011

It formed a new species of the Proliferous section, allied to Pultenaea stipularis.*

From Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 by Mitchell, Thomas

Proliferous flowers of Orchids also occasionally present great complexity in the arrangement of their parts.

From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.