proli-, prol- +
(Latin: offspring, child)
proliferous
1. In zoology, reproducing freely by means of buds and side branches, as corals do.
2. In botany, freely producing buds or offshoots, especially from unusual places, as shoots from flowers or fruits from fruits.
proliferously
1. In zoology, a reference to reproducing freely by means of buds and side branches, as corals do.
2. In botany, referring to producing buds or offshoots, especially from unusual places, as shoots from flowers or fruits from fruits.
prolific
1. Producing offspring, young, fruit, etc., abundantly; fertile; highly fruitful: a prolific pair of rabbits.
2. Producing in large quantities or with great frequency; highly productive: a prolific writer.
3. Profusely productive or fruitful (often followed by in or of): a bequest prolific of litigations.
4. Characterized by abundant production: a prolific year for killings by explosives.
5. Producing ideas or works frequently and in large quantities.
6. Present in large numbers, or containing large numbers or quantities of something; especially, animal life.
prolificacy
Producing abundantly and sustaining growth.
prolifical
Producing young or fruit abundantly; fruitful; prolific.
prolifically
1. Referring to producing offspring, young, fruit, etc., abundantly; highly fruitful: "We always enjoy how prolifically our apple tree gives us fruit."
2. A reference to the production of something in large quantities or with great frequency; highly productive: "She was writing prolifically every year."
3. Characterized by abundant production: "Our garden gave us plenty to eat this year because it prolifically produced great crops."
prolification
1. The generation of yound.
2. Reproduction by the growth of a plant, or part of a plant, directly from an older one.
prolificness
The quality or state of being prolific; fruitfulness; prolificacy.
proligerous
1. Of or relating to the production of offspring; germinating.
2. Producing offspring.
3. Freely producing offshoots, bulblets, or plantlets.
4. In mosses, bearing young shoots from the antheridial or archegonial cluster of leaves.
Related "birth, born, childbirth, offspring" words:
abort-;
feto-;
lochio-;
nasc-, nat-;
toco-, toko-.