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pro·lif·ic  (pr-lfk)
adj.
1. Producing offspring or fruit in great abundance; fertile.
2. Producing abundant works or results: a prolific artist. See Synonyms at fertile.

[French prolifique, from Medieval Latin prlificus : Latin prls, prl-, offspring; see al-2 in Indo-European roots + Latin -ficus, -fic.]

pro·lifi·ca·cy (--k-s), pro·lific·ness (-k-ns) n.
pro·lifi·cal·ly adv.

prolific [prəˈlɪfɪk]
adj
1. producing fruit, offspring, etc., in abundance
2. producing constant or successful results
3. (often foll by in or of) rich or fruitful
[from Medieval Latin prōlificus, from Latin prōlēs offspring]
prolifically  adv
prolificness , prolificacy n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.prolific - intellectually productive; "a prolific writer"; "a fecund imagination"
productive - producing or capable of producing (especially abundantly); "productive farmland"; "his productive years"; "a productive collaboration"
2.prolific - bearing in abundance especially offspring; "flying foxes are extremely prolific"; "a prolific pear tree"
fruitful - productive or conducive to producing in abundance; "be fruitful and multiply"

prolific
adjective
1. productive, creative, fertile, inventive, copious a prolific writer of novels and short stories
2. fruitful, fertile, abundant, rich, rank, teeming, bountiful, luxuriant, generative, profuse, fecund Closer planting will give you a more prolific crop.
fruitful barren, sterile, fruitless, unproductive, infertile, unfruitful, unprolific
Translations
prolific [prəˈlɪfɪk] ADJprolífico
prolific [prəʊˈlɪfɪk] adj
[writer, artist] → prolifique
[goal-scorer, run-maker] → prolifique
a prolific goal-scorer → un buteur prolifique
prolific
adj
(= productive)fruchtbar; writer alsosehr produktiv; scorererfolgreich
(= producing young) personfruchtbar
(= abundant)zahlreich, üppig
prolific [prəˈlɪfɪk] adj (animal) → prolifico/a; (crop) → abbondante; (writer) → fecondo/a


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Could that which procures a freer vent for the products of the earth, which furnishes new incitements to the cultivation of land, which is the most powerful instrument in increasing the quantity of money in a state -- could that, in fine, which is the faithful handmaid of labor and industry, in every shape, fail to augment that article, which is the prolific parent of far the greatest part of the objects upon which they are exerted?
But Grimaud's ingenuity was more prolific than his speech, and therefore at the first halt he sold his steed and with the money obtained from the purchase took post horses.
In the mean time, Seymour Delafield, after casting one longing, lingering look at Miss Henley, became the husband of her friend, and made the fourteenth in the prolific family of the Osgoods, where his wealth was not less agreeable to the parents, than his person to the daughter.
 
 
 
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