prolific : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: prolific	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for prolific
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
prolific adj intellectually productive; "a prolific writer"; "a fecund imagination" Synonym(s): fecund, fertile, prolific bearing in abundance especially offspring; "flying foxes are extremely prolific"; "a prolific pear tree" Synonym(s): prolific, fertile
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Prolific \Prolif"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}.] 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.