Word Meanings - LAYERING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A propagating by layers. Gardner.

PROPAGATIVE
Producing by propagation, or by a process of growth.
PROPAGATION
1. The act of propagating; continuance or multiplication of the kind by generation or successive production; as, the propagation of animals or plants. There is not in nature any spontaneous generation, but all come by propagation. Ray.
PROPAGATE
akin to propages, propago, a layer of a plant, slip, shoot. See Pro-, 1. To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production; -- applied to animals and plants; as, to propagate a breed of horses or sheep; to propagate a species
PROPAGATOR
One who propagates; one who continues or multiplies.
SELF-PROPAGATING
Propagating by one's self or by itself.