proliferous
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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
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Dianthus prolifer, proliferous Pink, at 8 and at 1.
From The Botanic Garden. Part II. Containing the Loves of the Plants. a Poem. With Philosophical Notes. by Darwin, Erasmus
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
In Larix the axis of the cone often continues its growth; similarly in Cephalotaxus the cones are often proliferous.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" by Various