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Proliferous vs Fruitful - What's the difference?

proliferous | fruitful | Related terms |

As adjectives the difference between proliferous and fruitful

is that proliferous is producing many offspring; prolific or proliferative while fruitful is favourable to the growth of fruit or useful vegetation; fertile; not barren.

proliferous

English

Adjective

  • producing many offspring; prolific or proliferative
  • (botany) producing many buds or offshoots from leaves or flowers
  • (zoology) reproducing by budding

    • Related terms

    * proliferate * proliferation * proliferative * prolific

    fruitful

    English

    Alternative forms

    * fruitfull (archaic)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Favourable to the growth of fruit or useful vegetation; fertile; not barren.
  • Being productive in any sense; yielding benefits.
    • The extra work in the office turned out to be fruitful after all - I got promoted

    Quotations

    * Genesis, I, 22 *: And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful , and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * unfruitful * barren * infertile

    Related terms

    * fruitfully * fruitfulness

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