reproducing
v.v. to produce babies or young plants. It also means to make a copy of something like a picture or a sound.
v. to produce offspring by a sexual or asexual process; to create a copy or representation of something. Present participle form used to describe biological multiplication or the replication of data and media.
Some plants are very good at reproducing in dry soil.
The laboratory is focused on reproducing the results of the initial study to ensure the data is reliable.
Biologists observed that the species was reproducing at an alarming rate, threatening to overwhelm the local ecosystem and deplete available food resources within a single season.
Transitive when meaning to copy something; intransitive when referring to the biological process of having offspring.