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proliferous, a.|prəʊˈlɪfərəs|
Also 8 -ferose.
[f. med.L. prōlifer (f. L. prōl-ēs offspring + -fer bearing) + -ous.]
†1. Producing offspring; procreative; prolific.
1654Gayton Pleas. Notes iv. x. 238 That her Greatnesse was augmented by the proliferous Contagion of Don Ferdinand. 1692O. Walker Grk. & Rom. Hist. 185 A Feast of such Fishes as are here expressed, Lobsters, Pulpes; such viz. as are very Proliferous and Inciters to Lust.
2. Producing many flowers; prolific. rare.
1682Wheler Journ. Greece vi. 479 The Narcissus Flowers..so proliferous. 1796C. Marshall Garden. xix. (1813) 373 Lily proliferous, or many flowered. 1893E. H. Barker Wayfaring in Fr. 347 Most conspicuous is the proliferous pink, with blooms unusually large and beautiful.
3. Of, pertaining to, or characterized by proliferation.
a. Bot. Producing leaf- or flower-buds from a leaf or flower, or other part which is normally terminal; also, Producing new individuals from buds, as distinguished from reproduction by means of seeds.
1702J. Petiver in Phil. Trans. XXIII. 1262 The main difference..is its panicle, which is here ramose or proliferose. 1759J. Hill (title) The Origin and Production of Proliferous Flowers, with the Culture at large for Raising Double from Single, and Proliferous from the Double. 1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. i. xx. (1765) 60 Flowers are said to be Proliferous, when one Flower grows out of another. 1832Lyell Princ. Geol. II. 78 These hydrophytes are in general proliferous, so that the smallest fragment of a branch can be developed into a perfect plant.
b. Zool. Reproducing itself or multiplying by budding; spec. producing sexual or generative (as opposed to nutritive) zooids.
1856Woodward Mollusca iii. 345 The embryos are attached in pairs to a double tube (or ‘proliferous stolon’) connected with the sinus to the right of the heart. 1878Bell Gegenbaur's Comp. Anat. 392 We find, just as in the Ascidiæ, proliferous outgrowths, namely, the stolons. 1884tr. Claus' Zool. vii. 237 The proliferous Polyps develop generative buds on their walls.
c. Path. Spreading by proliferation; = proliferative a.
1874Roosa Dis. Ear 268 The tinnitus is apt to be more troublesome in the proliferous than in the catarrhal form. 1879St. George's Hosp. Rep. IX. 757 A ‘proliferous’ cyst by ulceration and protrusion of its contents may give rise to a wart-like excrescence that may readily be mistaken for a large wart. 1895Syd. Soc. Lex., Proliferous cyst, a cyst whose lining membrane proliferates, giving rise to intracystic growths. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VI. 317 Proliferous intima infiltrated with cells and containing tubercle-bacilli.
Hence proˈliferously adv., by proliferation.
1846Dana Zooph. (1848) 324 Folia thin,..sometimes lacerate and proliferously extended. 1864H. Spencer Princ. Biol. §192 Fronds originating proliferously from other fronds. |