Chapter Prohibiter to Proll of P by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

1. (Biol.) To produce or form cells; especially, to produce cells rapidly.

2. (Zoöl.) To produce zooids by budding.

Proliferation
(Pro*lif`er*a"tion) n.

1. (Biol.) The continuous development of cells in tissue formation; cell formation. Virchow.

2. (Zoöl.) The production of numerous zooids by budding, especially when buds arise from other buds in succession.

Proliferous
(Pro*lif"er*ous) a. [L. proles offspring + -ferous.]

1. (Bot.) 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. (Zoöl.) (a) Producing young by budding. (b) Producing sexual zooids by budding; — said of the blastostyle of a hydroid. (c) 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.

Prolific
(Pro*lif"ic) a. [F. prolifique, fr. L. proles offspring (from pro for, forward + the root of alere to nourish) + facere to make. See Adult, Old, and Fact.]

1. Having the quality of generating; producing young or fruit; generative; fruitful; productive; — applied to plants producing fruit, animals producing young, etc.; — usually with the implied idea of frequent or numerous production; as, a prolific tree, female, and the like.

2. Serving to produce; fruitful of results; active; as, a prolific brain; a controversy prolific of evil.

3. (Bot.) Proliferous.

Prolificacy
(Pro*lif"ic*a*cy) n. Prolificness. [R.]

Prolifical
(Pro*lif"ic*al) a. Producing young or fruit abundantly; fruitful; prolific. — Pro*lif"ic*al*ly, adv.

Prolificate
(Pro*lif"ic*ate) v. t. [See Prolific.] To make prolific; to fertilize; to impregnate. Sir T. Browne.

Prolification
(Pro*lif`i*ca"tion) n. [Cf. F. prolification, LL. prolificatio.]

1. The generation of young.

2. (Bot.) Reproduction by the growth of a plant, or part of a plant, directly from an older one, or by gemmæ.

Prolificness
(Pro*lif"ic*ness) n. The quality or state of being prolific; fruitfulness; prolificacy.

Prolix
(Pro*lix") a. [L. prolixus extended, long, prolix, probably fr. pro before, forward + liqui to flow, akin to liquidus liquid; cf. OL. lixa water: cf. F. prolixe. See Liquid.]

1. Extending to a great length; unnecessarily long; minute in narration or argument; excessively particular in detail; — rarely used except with reference to discourse written or spoken; as, a prolix oration; a prolix poem; a prolix sermon.

With wig prolix, down flowing to his waist.

Cowper.