 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
prolific
adjective
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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Prolific \Pro*lif"ic\, adjective [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 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
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