Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The generation of young animals or plants.
- noun In botany, the development of an organ or a shoot from an organ which is itself normally ultimate, as a shoot or new flower from the midst of a flower, a frond from a frond, etc.
- noun Reproduction by division.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The generation of young.
- noun (Bot.) Reproduction by the growth of a plant, or part of a plant, directly from an older one, or by gemmæ.
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- noun dated The generation of young.
- noun dated, botany Reproduction by the growth of a plant, or part of a plant, directly from an older one, or by
gemmae .
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Examples
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Under the term prolification of the fruit two or three distinct kinds of malformation appear to have been included.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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From these considerations it would appear better to abandon the use of the expression prolification of the fruit, as unnecessary where it is really applicable, and as delusive in the numerous other cases where it is employed.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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_Married partners enjoy similar communications with each other as in the world, but more delightful and blessed, yet without prolification; in the place of which they experience spiritual prolification, which is that of love and wisdom.
The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love Emanuel Swedenborg 1730
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Married pairs enjoy similar communications with each other as in the world, but more delightful and blessed, yet without prolification; in the place of which they experience spiritual prolification, which is that of love and wisdom, n.
The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love Emanuel Swedenborg 1730
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The reason why marriages in the heavens are without prolification, and that in place thereof there is experienced spiritual prolification, which is that of love and wisdom, is, because with the inhabitants of the spiritual world, the third principle -- the natural, is wanting; and it is this which contains the spiritual principles; and these without that which contains them have no consistence, like the productions of the natural world: moreover spiritual principles, considered in themselves, have relation to love and wisdom; therefore love and wisdom are the births produced from marriages in the heavens.
The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love Emanuel Swedenborg 1730
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Even trying to cause the prolification of nuclear weapons.
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But I must tell you that the vicar of Jambert ascribed this copious prolification of the women, not to that sort of food that we chiefly eat in Lent, but to the little licensed stooping mumpers, your little booted
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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But I must tell you that the vicar of Jambert ascribed this copious prolification of the women, not to that sort of food that we chiefly eat in Lent, but to the little licensed stooping mumpers, your little booted
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Owing to the vagueness with which the word has been applied by various authors, it becomes very difficult to ascertain whether the recorded instances of chloranthy were really illustrations of what is here meant by that term, or whether they were cases of mere virescence (green colour, without other perceptible change), or of prolification (formation of adventitious buds).
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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In direct proportion, then, to the degree in which one region of the axis or certain branches of a plant are devoted to the formation of flower-buds to the exclusion of leaf-buds, is the frequency with which those flowers become affected with floral prolification.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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