Prolific
[prə'lɪfɪk]
Definition
(adj.) bearing in abundance especially offspring; 'flying foxes are extremely prolific'; 'a prolific pear tree' .
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Definition
(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.
(a.) Serving to produce; fruitful of results; active; as, a prolific brain; a controversy prolific of evil.
(a.) Proliferous.
Typist: Susan
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Fruitful, fertile, productive, generative, teeming.
Typist: Lolita
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See PRODUCTION]
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Definition
adj. bringing forth offspring: producing young or fruit: productive: bringing about results: (bot.) applied to a flower from which another is produced.—ns. Prolif′icacy Prolif′icness.—adv. Prolif′ically.—n. Prolificā′tion the generation of young animals or plants: (bot.) development of a shoot from an organ normally ultimate.
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Examples
- Long periods of slowness and stagnation have alternated with shorter or longer periods of prolific growth, and these with seasons of slumber and repression. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Remember that money is of the prolific, generating nature. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The authors of the book are profoundly conscious of the fact that the extraordinary period of electrical development embraced in it has been prolific of great men. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- No less a personage than that most prolific Plenipo, the Hon. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- With the fertile earth, and its prolific inventors, the United States has become the richest country in the world. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- He realized at once that the heat generated in a solid core was a prolific source of loss. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Other sections of the United States have of late years proved prolific sources of gold, especially Colorado, which now surpasses California in yield, and Alaska, which equals it. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Following closely upon the discovery of the telephone the phonograph came, literally speaking for itself, and adding another surprise to the wonderful inventions of that prolific period. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The reader will see from an examination of this list that the years 1880, 1881, 1882, and 1883 were the most prolific periods of invention. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Connecticut is the most productive State in invention in proportion to its people, and Edison is the most prolific inventor. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It would seem to stiffen his backbone and make him more prolific of new ideas. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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