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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
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 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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