prolific

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   bearing in abundance especially offspring

   flying foxes are extremely prolific

2. 2
   adj

   intellectually productive

   a prolific writer

3. 3
   adj

   Similarly producing results or performing deeds in abundance.

   However appealing Antibes may be to migrant authors, indigenous ones are relatively scarce. A notable exception is Jacques Audiberti, Antibes-born novelist and prolific playwright who wrote in the turn-of-the-century surrealist style, with titles that translate as Slaughter, or In Favour of Infanticide.

4. 4
   adj

   Copious; plentiful; abundant.

   The prolific bird life around the Inlet was thinning out but grey rosellas and zebras and painted finches made the bush merry[.]

5. 5
   adj

   Fertile; producing offspring or fruit in abundance, applied to plants producing fruit, animals producing young, etc.

6. 6
   adj

   Of a flower: from which another flower is produced.

Etymology

1635: from French prolifique and its etymon Latin prōlificus, from prōlēs (“offspring”) + -ficus (“making”).