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proliferous

[ pruh-lif-er-uhs ]

adjective

  1. Botany.
    1. producing new individuals by budding or the like.
    2. producing an organ or shoot from an organ that is itself normally the last, as a shoot or a new flower from the midst of a flower.


proliferous

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adjective

  1. (of plants) producing many side branches or offshoots and normally reproducing vegetatively by buds or by plantlets produced in the inflorescence
  2. (of certain animals) reproducing by means of buds, etc
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ²Ô´Ç²Ôp°ù´Ç·±ô¾±´Úİù·´Ç³Ü²õ adjective
  • ³Ü²Ôp°ù´Ç·±ô¾±´Úİù·´Ç³Ü²õ adjective
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of proliferous1

1645–55; < Medieval Latin ±è°ùűô¾±´Ú±ð°ù bearing offspring + -ous. See prolicide, -ferous
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of proliferous1

C17: from Medieval Latin ±è°ùűô¾±´Ú±ð°ù having offspring
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But the pathologies are deeper and more proliferous than a set of clueless white leaders, and it’s hard to imagine how the corporate structures of nonprofit theater can be salvaged.

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It doesn’t help that Atlanta is home to what’s arguably the most proliferous and electrifying music scene in America right now, having recently nurtured the brash and idiosyncratic rappers Lil Yachty, Lil Baby, Migos, and Future, among others.

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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.

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Thallus dichotomous, proliferous, the early divisions linear-oblong, the margins ascending and remotely sinuate, the later divisions linear-palmatifid, coarsely nerved; cells large, hexagonal; involucre ciliate-fringed or lacerate; calyptra smooth, included.—Wet limestones and shales.

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Culms filiform, 5–12´ high; upper sheath rarely distinctly leaf-bearing; spikelets 1–7 in a sessile or sometimes geminately proliferous cluster, ovate-oblong becoming cylindrical, greenish; scales ovate, strongly keeled, mucronate-pointed; stamens 2 or 3; style 2-cleft; bristles none; achene obovate-orbicular, mucronate, plano-convex, strongly wrinkled transversely.—Wet shores, Ill. to Tex.; also found in E. Mass.

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