prolific

Meaning

  1. Fertile; producing offspring or fruit in abundance — applied to plants producing fruit, animals producing young, etc.
  2. Similarly producing results or performing deeds in abundance
  3. Of a flower: from which another flower is produced.

Frequency

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Hyphenated as
pro‧li‧fic
Pronounced as (IPA)
/pɹəˈlɪf.ɪk/
Etymology

1640–1650: from French prolifique, from Latin proles (“offspring”) and facere (“to make”).

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