Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - prolific
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Prolific
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1. A prolific writer, artist, or composer produces a large number of works. She is a prolific writer of novels and short stories... ADJ 2. A prolific sports player scores a lot of goals or wins a lot of matches or races. Another prolific scorer is Dean Saunders. ADJ: usu ADJ n 3. An animal, person, or plant that is prolific produces a large number of babies, young plants, or fruit. They are prolific breeders, with many hens laying up to six eggs. ADJ
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adjective Etymology: French prolifique, from Middle French, from Latin proles + Middle French -figue -fic Date: 1650 1. producing young or fruit especially freely ; fruitful 2. archaic causing abundant growth, generation, or reproduction 3. marked by abundant inventiveness or productivity a ~ composer Synonyms: see fertile • ~acy noun • ~ally adverb • ~ness noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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adj. 1 producing many offspring or much output. 2 (often foll. by of) abundantly productive. 3 (often foll. by in) abounding, copious. Derivatives prolificacy n. prolifically adv. prolificness n. Etymology: med.L prolificus (as PROLIFEROUS) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. плодовитый (о человеке, животных) prolific writer —- плодовитый писатель 2. плодоносный 3. плодородный (о почве) 4. благоприятный prolific climate —- прекрасный климат 5. обильный, урожайный a prolific year for apples —- год, урожайный на яблоки 6. изобилующий prolific of ideas —- полный всяких идей ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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~ adj 1 a prolific artist, writer etc produces many works of art, books etc 2 an animal or plant that is prolific produces many babies or many other plants 3 literary existing in large numbers (the prolific bird life) - prolifically adv ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1650, from Fr. prolifique, from M.L. prolificus, from L. proles "offspring" + root of facere "to make." L. proles is from PIE *pro-al-, from *pro- "forth" + *al- "to grow, nourish." ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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