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proliferous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.03 in modern English

Syllables
pro-lif-er-ous
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Producing many offspring; prolific or proliferative.

adj

Producing many buds or offshoots from leaves or flowers.

adj

Reproducing by budding.

Etymology

From Latin prōlifer, from prōlēs (“offspring”) + -fer (“bearing”), + -ous.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

more proliferous (comparative) most proliferous (superlative)

Derived Forms

nonproliferous proliferously proliferousness

Frequently Paired Words

proliferate proliferation proliferative prolific

Rhymes With

carboniferous fossiliferous cruciferous seminiferous odoriferous splendiferous luminiferous metalliferous floriferous auriferous stoloniferous calciferous

Questions

What does proliferous mean?
Producing many offspring; prolific or proliferative.
Where does proliferous come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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