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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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  1. 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.
  2. a. Serving to produce; fruitful of results; active; as, a prolific brain; a controversy prolific of evil.
  3. a. Proliferous.
  4. adj. intellectually productive
  5. adj. bearing in abundance especially offspring
  6. 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.
  7. j:100 s. bearing in abundance especially offspring