prolific
Meaning
- Fertile; producing offspring or fruit in abundance — applied to plants producing fruit, animals producing young, etc.
- Similarly producing results or performing deeds in abundance
- Of a flower: from which another flower is produced.
Synonyms
boundtiful
abounding in progeny
of great vitality
Frequency
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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