Prolific \Pro*lif"ic\, a. [F. prolifique, fr. L. proles
offspring (from pro for, forward + the root of alere to
nourish) + facere to make. See Adult, Old, and Fact.]
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1. Having the quality of generating; producing young or
fruit; generative; fruitful; productive; -- applied to
plants producing fruit, animals producing young, etc.; --
usually with the implied idea of frequent or numerous
production; as, a prolific tree, female, and the like.
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2. Serving to produce; fruitful of results; active; as, a
prolific brain; a controversy prolific of evil.
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3. (Bot.) Proliferous.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
prolific
adj 1: intellectually productive; "a prolific writer"; "a fecund
imagination" [syn: fecund, fertile]
2: bearing in abundance especially offspring; "flying foxes are
extremely prolific"; "a prolific pear tree" [syn: fertile]
WordNet (r) 2.0
86 Moby Thesaurus words for "prolific":
abounding, abundant, alive with, blooming, bounteous, bountiful,
breeding, bristling, bursting, bursting out, conceptive,
conceptual, copious, crawling, creative, crowded, crowding,
diffuse, diffusive, effusive, esemplastic, extravagant, exuberant,
fecund, fertile, flourishing, formless, fructiferous, fruitful,
generous, germinal, gushing, gushy, ideational, ideative,
imaginative, in profusion, ingenious, inspired, inventive,
jam-packed, jammed, lavish, lush, luxuriant, notional, original,
originative, overflowing, packed, plenteous, plentiful, pleonastic,
populous, pregnant, prodigal, productive, profuse, profusive,
proliferating, proliferous, propagating, redundant, reiterative,
repetitive, reproducing, reproductive, rich, rife, seminal,
shaping, spawning, studded, superabundant, swarming, tautologous,
teeming, thick, thick as hail, thick with, thick-coming, thriving,
thronged, thronging, uberous, visioned
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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