Prolific

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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}.]
     [1913 Webster]
     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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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