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proliferous

proliferous adjective: producing many offspring; prolific or proliferative.

Adjective

proliferous (comparative more proliferous, superlative most proliferous)

  1. Producing many offspring; prolific or proliferative.
  2. Producing many buds or offshoots from leaves or flowers.
  3. Reproducing by budding.

Forms of proliferous

comparativemore proliferous
superlativemost proliferous

Origin of proliferous

From Latin prōlifer, from prōlēs (“offspring”) + -fer (“bearing”), + -ous.

Words formed from proliferous

Words that rhyme with proliferous

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Questions about proliferous

What does proliferous mean?
Proliferous means producing many offspring; prolific or proliferative.
What part of speech is proliferous?
Proliferous is an adjective.

Words near proliferous in the dictionary

  1. proliferatives
  2. proliferator
  3. proliferators
  4. proliferatory
  5. proliferogenic
  6. proliferous
  7. proliferously
  8. proliferousness
  9. prolifers
  10. prolific
  11. prolificacies

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