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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We’ve all known how good Cranston is from his work on “Breaking Bad,” the cable drama that set a standard this new proliferous streaming era has had difficulty matching.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2018

Some, like the proliferous Valentino�who operates nearly 80 retail outlets round the world�have been forced to franchise a number of their shops, but keep a firm hand on their agents.

From Time Magazine Archive

Meanwhile a wife had been found for him, carefully chosen for her robust health and the proliferous reputation of her ancestors.

From Time Magazine Archive

This is a diffuse perennial grass with a creeping root-stock, with fairly stout sometimes proliferous freely branching stems; branches are stiff, erect, inclined or prostrate, varying in length from 6 inches to 2 feet.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.

Creeping, dichotomous, proliferous; leaves ovate, the broad apex acutely 3-toothed; underleaves roundish-quadrangular, spreading, 4–6-toothed above; perianth curved, cylindric, plicate at the narrow apex and 3-toothed.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa