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Definition of Prolific
1. Adjective. Intellectually productive. "A fecund imagination"
2. Adjective. Bearing in abundance especially offspring. "A prolific pear tree"
Definition of Prolific
1. a. 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.
Definition of Prolific
1. Adjective. Fertile, producing offspring or fruit in abundance — applied to plants producing fruit, animals producing young, etc. ¹
2. Adjective. Similarly producing results or works in abundance ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Prolific
1. producing abundantly [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prolific
Literary usage of Prolific
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1893)
"Black Wax—early and very pood; Butter Wax—тегу prolific; Early Rachel—very ...
Boston Pickling—prolific and healthy; Improved Long Green—prolific bearer, ..."
2. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register by Henry Fritz-Gilbert Waters (1847)
"EDITOR : prolific FAMILY. In the second number of the Register you give an account
of an exceedingly prolific family in Nova Scotia, which you think can ..."
3. Letters and Other Writings of James Madison by James Madison (1865)
"The American admits the capacity of the prolific principle in the human race to
exceed the sources of attainable food, as is exemplified by the occasions ..."
4. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1867)
"French's Seedling, of good size and flavor, and prolific. I think it more suitable
for the South than other localities. Scotch Runner, a very valuable ..."
5. Conservation of Energy: Being an Elementary Treatise on Energy and Its Laws by Balfour Stewart (1873)
"The Ideas of the Ancients were not prolific 187. These quotations render it ...
And yet these ideas were not prolific— they gave rise to nothing new. ..."
6. Conservation of Energy: Being an Elementary Treatise on Energy and Its Laws by Balfour Stewart (1873)
"The Ideas of the Ancients were not prolific 187. These quotations render it ...
And yet these ideas were not prolific— they gave rise to nothing new. ..."
7. The Conservation of Energy: Being an Elementary Treatise on Energy and Its Laws by Balfour Stewart (1873)
"The Ideas of the Ancients were not prolific 187. These quotations render it ...
And yet these ideas were not prolific— they gave rise to nothing new. ..."
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