Usually means: Producing new growth or offspring.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. proliferous: Merriam-Webster
  2. proliferous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. proliferous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. proliferous: Collins English Dictionary
  5. proliferous: Wordnik
  6. proliferous: Wiktionary
  7. proliferous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. proliferous: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Proliferous, proliferous: Dictionary.com
  10. Proliferous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. proliferous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Proliferous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. proliferous: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. proliferous: FreeDictionary.org
  15. proliferous: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bryological (No longer online)
  3. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (proliferous)

adjective:  producing many offspring; prolific or proliferative
adjective:  (botany) producing many buds or offshoots from leaves or flowers
adjective:  (zoology) reproducing by budding

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