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23 words match “PROLIFIC”

PROLIFIC a. 3 definitions

g young, etc.; -- usually with the implied idea of frequent or numerous production; as, a prolific tree, female, and the like.

Prolificness. [R.]

Producing young or fruit abundantly; fruitful; prolific. -- Pro*lif"ic*al*ly, adv.

To make prolific; to fertilize; to impregnate. Sir T. Browne.

PROLIFICATION n. 2 definitions

The generation of young.

PROLIFICNESS n.

The quality or state of being prolific; fruitfulness; prolificacy.

Not prolific. [Obs.] E. Waterhouse.

IMPROLIFICATE v.

To impregnate. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A monk of the prolific branch of the Benedictine Order, established in 1098 at Cîteaux, in France, by Robert, abbot of Molesme. For two hundred years the Cistercians followed the rule of St. Benedict in all its rigor. -- a.

Fruitful in children; prolific. Graunt.

FECUNDATE v. 2 definitions

To make fruitful or prolific. W. Montagu.

Producing fruit or vegetation in abundance; fruitful; able to produce abundantly; prolific; fecund; productive; rich; inventive; as, fertile land or fields; a fertile mind or imagination. Though he in a fertile climate dwell. Shak.

Full of fruit; producing fruit abundantly; bearing results; prolific; fertile; liberal; bountiful; as, a fruitful tree, or season, or soil; a fruitful wife. -- Fruit"ful*ly, adv. -- Fruit"ful*ness, n. Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth. Gen. i. 28. [Nature] By disburdening grows More fruitful. Milton. T…

A bud. From the joints of thy prolific stem A swelling knot is raised called a gem. Denham.

IMPREGNATE v. 2 definitions

To make pregnant; to cause to conceive; to render prolific; to get with child or young.

To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific. Fishes are more numerous of increasing than beasts or birds, as appears by their numerous spawn. Sir M. Hale.

To bear fruit or offspring to excess; to be too prolific.

Yielding abundance; prolific; fruitful. If it be a long winter, it is commonly a more plentiful year. Bacon.

To be full, or ready to bring forth; to be stocked to overflowing; to be prolific; to abound. His mind teeming with schemes of future deceit to cover former villainy. Sir W. Scott. The young, brimful of the hopes and feeling which teem in our time. F. Harrison.

Pregnant; prolific. [Obs.]