(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 gemmae.
2.
(Zool.)
(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.
