The Collaborative International Dictionary
Proliferous \Pro*lif"er*ous\, a. [L. proles offspring + -ferous.]
(Bot.) Bearing offspring; -- applied to a flower from within which another is produced, or to a branch or frond from which another rises, or to a plant which is reproduced by buds or gemm[ae].
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(Zo["o]l.)
Producing young by budding.
Producing sexual zooids by budding; -- said of the blastostyle of a hydroid.
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Producing a cluster of branchlets from a larger branch; -- said of corals.
Proliferous cyst (Med.), a cyst that produces highly-organized or even vascular structures.
--Paget. [1913 Webster] -- Pro*lif"er*ous*ly, adv.
Wiktionary
a. 1 producing many offspring; prolific or proliferative 2 (context botany English) producing many buds or offshoots from leaves or flowers 3 (context zoology English) reproducing by budding
Usage examples of "proliferous".
Prenatal care of mothers and postnatal care of infants were subjects of compelling interest in those days, arriving monthly in the burgeoning women's magazines and annually in the proliferous child-care manuals.
By now the proliferous gaming houses, the interstellar numbers service, the randoma-tic sweepstakes, were only froth on the Wheel's activities.