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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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}.]
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [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}]
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