In some of the instances of so-called proliferous pears the carpels would seem to be entirely absent, and the dilated portion of the axis to be alone repeated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

Both are proliferous ground-covering plants indigenous to the Andean moor ecosystem (bofedales).    From Wordnik.com.  [14.1 Jig screen, hand-jigging] Reference

If the ovary be normally superior or free from the calyx, then the latter is comparatively rarely altered; for instance, in proliferous pinks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

Stem simple when young, proliferous at the sides when old, the young plants developing from the apices of the tubercles, and not in the axils, as is usual.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation] Reference

In proliferous roses, or in cases where the central axis of the flower is prolonged, it frequently happens that the pistils are more or less replaced by leaves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

Occasionally in prolified flowers the parts of the corolla, like those of the calyx, become foliaceous, and in the case of proliferous pears fleshy and succulent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

In some of the instances of proliferous pears, on which I shall have occasion to comment, the sepals are described as sharing in the succulent character of the fruit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

Stem similar to the last, but usually proliferous at the base; tubercles angular, short, woolly in the axils, and bearing four rigid, short, reddish-brown spines on the apex.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation] Reference

Not only does it represent the integration of the existing proliferous and dispersed legislation, but it is also wholly conceived as a national health system, because it totally regulates the fundamental aspects of this state activity.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANPP SESSION] Reference

Probably the absence of the swollen portion below the flower in the case of many proliferous roses, double-flowered apples, as already referred to, may be dependent on the non-development of the extremity of the peduncle or flower-stalk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

It was made for Bishop Lothar Franz von Schönborn (reigned from 1693 until 1729; he was also Elector-Archsbishop of Mainz, and one of the most famous and proliferous builders of the German baroque), whose coat of arms is embroidered on the seam.    From Wordnik.com.  [Catholic Bamberg: The Vestments of Pope Clement II and Other Treasures from the Diocesan Museum] Reference

Stem 4 in. high by 3 in. in diameter, proliferous at the base; tubercles short, four-angled, crowded in spiral rows, woolly at the base, bearing each five or six radiating hair-like spines on the apex, and one central erect one, none more than ¼ in. long.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation] Reference

Of more interest is the alteration in the position of these organs which sometimes necessarily accrues from the elongation of the axis and the disjunction of the calyx; thus, in proliferous roses the stamens become strictly hypogynous, instead of remaining perigynous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

In a proliferous umbel, the umbcllule is fubdivided.    From Wordnik.com.  [The language of botany : being a dictionary of the terms made use of in that science, principally by Linneus ...] Reference

The origin and produAion of proliferous flowers, 8vo .. 2s. 6d.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Monthly Review] Reference

It was not one of the destructive proliferous rats of the northern hemisphere.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Science From an Easy Chair] Reference

The Daisy not only produces double flowers, but also the curious proliferous flower called.    From Wordnik.com.  [The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare] Reference

This is a process that is well known to gardeners in the propagation of Begonias, and it is familiar to us in the proliferous.    From Wordnik.com.  [The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare] Reference

Shepherd reports a case of recurrent proliferous cyst in a woman of sixty-three, on whom successful ovariotomy was performed twice within nine months.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

Shepherd 14.53 reports a case of recurrent proliferous cyst in a woman of sixty-three, on whom successful ovariotomy was performed twice within nine months.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

No. 4 a Species of fir which in point of Size is much that of No 2, -. the Stem Simple branching assending and proliferous; the bark of a redish dark brown and thicker than that of No. 3. it is devided with.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806] Reference

Life is proliferous and profound.    From Wordnik.com.  [[zany life + crazy faith]] Reference

Caryophyllia), grouped but separate, laterally if at all proliferous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845] Reference

2. the stem simple branching assending and proliferous; the bark of a redish dark brown and thicker than that of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806] Reference

2. the stem simple branching ascending and proliferous; the bark of a redish dark brown and thicker than that of N°.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806] Reference

7.1 this tree seldom rises to a greater hight than 35 feet and is from 2 1/2 to 4 feet in diameter; the stem is simple branching diffuse and proliferous, the bark the same with that of N°.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806] Reference

C. multiplex (proliferous); Fig. 24.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation] Reference

Nodes are thickened and sometimes proliferous.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference

A proliferous ftem.    From Wordnik.com.  [The language of botany : being a dictionary of the terms made use of in that science, principally by Linneus ...] Reference