proliferative, proliferous

proliferative, proliferous
Increasing the numbers of similar forms.

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  • prolific — I adjective abundant, breedy, copious, creative, fecund, feracious, fertile, fruitbearing, fruitful, generative, philoprogenitive, procreative, productive, profuse, progenitive, proliferative, proliferous, rich, teeming, verbose, wordy, yielding… …   Law dictionary

  • productive — adj 1. generative, fructificative, frui tive, fruit bearing; reproductive, propagative, propa gatory, propagational, progenitive, multiplicative, regenerative; formative, shaping, constructive, making; creative, inventive, imaginative,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • prolific — adj 1. fertile, philoprogenitive, yielding, fruitful, fructiferous, fructuous, feracious; fecund, proliferative, proliferous; productive, generative, fruc tificative, fruitive, fruit bearing; propagative, prop agatory, propagational,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • teeming — adj 1.Usu. teeming with abounding, swarming with, bursting with, bristling with, alive with, crawling with, Sl. lousy with; stocked with, full or filled with, stuffed with, crowded or overcrowded with, jammed with, packed with; jam packed, filled …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

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  • proliferate —   v.i.,v.t. produce (offspring, cells or buds) in large numbers at short intervals; grow by such reproduction of parts.    ♦ proliferation, n.    ♦ proliferative,    ♦ prolific,    ♦ proliferous, a …   Dictionary of difficult words

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