·adj Proliferous.
II. Prolific ·adj Serving to produce; fruitful of results; active; as, a prolific brain; a controversy prolific of evil.
III. Prolific ·adj 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.