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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. intellectually productive;
- Example: "a prolific writer"
- Example: "a fecund imagination"
[syn: fecund, fertile, prolific]

2. bearing in abundance especially offspring;
- Example: "flying foxes are extremely prolific"
- Example: "a prolific pear tree"
[syn: prolific, fertile]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Serving to produce; fruitful of results; active; as, a
      prolific brain; a controversy prolific of evil.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. (Bot.) Proliferous.
      [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

prolific
    adj 1: intellectually productive; "a prolific writer"; "a fecund
           imagination" [syn: fecund, fertile, prolific]
    2: bearing in abundance especially offspring; "flying foxes are
       extremely prolific"; "a prolific pear tree" [syn: prolific,
       fertile]