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Meaning of 'prolific' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Prolific [ a.]
- 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.
- Serving to produce; fruitful of results; active; as, a prolific brain; a controversy prolific of evil.
- Proliferous.

Meaning of 'prolific' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . prolific [ s]
Meaning (1):
- intellectually productive
Example in sentence:
  • a fecund imagination;
  • a prolific writer
Meaning (2):
- bearing in abundance especially offspring
Example in sentence:
  • a prolific pear tree;
  • flying foxes are extremely prolific

Nearby Words:

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