Thesaurus: prolific
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 …
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- a. 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.
- a. Serving to produce; fruitful of results; active; as, a prolific brain; a controversy prolific of evil.
- a. Proliferous.
- adj. intellectually productive
- adj. bearing in abundance especially offspring
- 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. 2. Serving to produce; fruitful of results; active; as, a prolific brain; a controversy prolific of evil. 3. (Bot.) Proliferous.
- j:100 s. bearing in abundance especially offspring