1. (a.) Serving to produce plentiful offspring or results; as, a prolific plant.
2. (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.
3. (a.) Proliferous.
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