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proliferous

[pruh-lif-er-uhs] / prəˈlɪf ər əs /


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We’ve all known how good Cranston is from his work on “Breaking Bad,” the cable drama that set a standard this new proliferous streaming era has had difficulty matching.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2018

Meanwhile a wife had been found for him, carefully chosen for her robust health and the proliferous reputation of her ancestors.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some, like the proliferous Valentino�who operates nearly 80 retail outlets round the world�have been forced to franchise a number of their shops, but keep a firm hand on their agents.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thallus dichotomous, proliferous, the early divisions linear-oblong, the margins ascending and remotely sinuate, the later divisions linear-palmatifid, coarsely nerved; cells large, hexagonal; involucre ciliate-fringed or lacerate; calyptra smooth, included.—Wet limestones and shales.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Shepherd reports a case of recurrent proliferous cyst in a woman of sixty-three, on whom successful ovariotomy was performed twice within nine months.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)



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