Proliferous

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

1. 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 gemmæ.

2. Producing young by budding.

3. Producing sexual zooids by budding; -- said of the blastostyle of a hydroid.

4. 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. -- Pro*lif"er*ous*ly, adv.