PROLIF'ICAL, adjective [Latin proles, offspring, and facio, to make.] 1. Producing young or fruit; fruitful; generative; productive; applied to animals and plants; as a prolific female; a prolific tree. 2. Productive; having the quality of generating; as a controversy prolific of evil consequences; a prolific brain. 3. A prolific flower, [prolifer, ] in botany is one which produces a second flower from its own substance, or which has smaller flowers growing out of the principal one. But proliferous is commonly used.
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