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What is the adjective for prolificacy?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs proliferate and prolificate which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

proliferous
  1. producing many offspring; prolific or proliferative
  2. (botany) producing many buds or offshoots from leaves or flowers
  3. (zoology) reproducing by budding
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “In some of these plants, the flower-heads were also proliferous.”
      “The calyx therefore, contrary to the nature of the common Polytrichum, is proliferous from its base.”
      “With only 39 years, he has a proliferous career as designer, covering different fields of industrial and interior design.”
prolific
  1. Fertile, producing offspring or fruit in abundance — applied to plants producing fruit, animals producing young, etc.
  2. Similarly producing results or works in abundance
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Tourism is well controlled and, as a result, the wildlife is prolific but the birds and animals have become accustomed to visitors and many are quite tame.”
      “The grass of Manyema is like other things in this prolific land, of gigantic proportions, and denser than the richest field of corn.”
      “A prolific songwriter, she was a role model for how to live life as a musician and entertainer.”
proliferative
  1. (cytology) of or pertaining to proliferation, especially of cells
  2. proliferating; tending to proliferate
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Flies homozygous for such hypomorphic mutations reach adulthood, but often exhibit defects during the proliferative stages of gametogenesis.”
      “In mammals, germ cells undergo a small number of proliferative mitotic cell divisions as they migrate to the gonad.”
      “Histologically, these lesions form a spectrum of tumors ranging from benign cystic adenomas to proliferative cystic sebaceous tumors.”
prolifical
  1. (dated) Producing young or fruit abundantly; prolific; fruitful.
proligerous
prolifick
  1. Obsolete spelling of prolific
proliferated
proliferating
prolificated
  1. simple past tense and past participle of prolificate
prolificating
  1. present participle of prolificate
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