(1):
(a.) Serving to produce; fruitful of results; active; as, a prolific brain; a controversy prolific of evil.
(2):
(a.) Proliferous.
(3):
(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.