| prolific | 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. <botany> Proliferous. Origin: F. Prolifique, fr. L. Proles offspring (from pro for, forward + the root of alere to nourish) + facere = to make. See Adult, Old, and Fact. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| prolifical | Producing young or fruit abundantly; fruitful; prolific. Prolif"ically. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| prolification | 1. The generation of young. 2. <botany> Reproduction by the growth of a plant, or part of a plant, directly from an older one, or by gemmae. Origin: Cf. F. Prolification, LL. Prolificatio. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| prolificness | The quality or state of being prolific; fruitfulness; prolificacy. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |