multiferous

Adjective

multiferous (comparative more multiferous, superlative most multiferous)

1. Bearing or producing much or many; fruitful.
   • Thus, in the present digressive and droll performance, [for Peter is ever digressive as well as diverting,] every thing finds a place that seems, in random succession, to have occureed to the multiferous mind of the playful poet, when he sat down to write .1791, Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths, The Monthly Review, page 465
   • Since Michael O'Donovan of Cork, Ireland took the pen name of Frank O'Connor in 1925, he has been a multiferous writer of short stories as well as of novels, poems, translations from the Irish, biographies, criticisms, travel books and plays.1958, “The Editor's Guest Book”, in Harper's Bazaar, volume 92, page 67
2. Many and varied; multifarious.
   • There is, notwithstanding, a sort of Manicheism in genius, as there is the antinomy in science, as there are light and shade in art, as there are opposite and similarly appearing movements in life, as there are diverse and simultaneous springs in the human conscience, as there are attraction and...1888, José M. Aguirre, An Open Letter to James G. Blaine, page 27
   • The growing of neem because of its multiferous uses and insecticidal value seems to be a profitable preposition, as production of azadirachtin alone can give remunerative dividend (Martin, 1993).1999, O. P. Shukla, Omkaro, A. K. Kulshretha, Pesticides, Man and Biosphere, page 92