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The Meaning of 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.
  • (a.) Serving to produce; fruitful of results; active; as, a prolific brain; a controversy prolific of evil.
  • (a.) Proliferous.

Rhymes

autopacific , hieroglyphic , honorific , horrific , nonspecific , pacific , pseudoscientific , scientific , specific , terrific , transpacific , unscientific