PROLIF'ICAL, a. [L.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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