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proligerous, a.|prəʊˈlɪdʒərəs|
[f. L. type (or mod.L.) *prōliger (f. prōl-ēs offspring + -ger bearing) + -ous; cf. F. proligère.]
1. Bearing offspring; generative; germinative.
proligerous disk or proligerous layer (Embryol.), name given by von Baer to the aggregation of cells on the outside of an ovum, formerly supposed to be germinative. proligerous pellicle, the film or membrane formed on an infusion, in which the organisms found in the infusion were supposed to originate.
1836–9Todd's Cycl. Anat. II. 448/2 The centre of a granular layer..to which he [Baer] gives the name of proligerous disc or layer. Ibid. 449/1 A whitish opaque spot..indicating the layer of granules or proligerous disc. 1849–52Ibid. IV. 1221/2 The internal vesicle is the vesicle of Purkinje, or the proligerous vesicle. 1870Nature 30 June 172/2 What Burdach named the proligerous pellicle of organic solution is made up of an aggregation of monads and bacteria in a transparent jelly-like stratum.
2. Bot. = proliferous a. 3 a.
1890in Cent. Dict. |