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Webster 1913 Edition


Prolifical

Pro-lif′ic-al

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Adj.
Producing young or fruit abundantly; fruitful; prolific.
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Pro-lif′ic-al-ly
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adv.

Webster 1828 Edition


Prolifical

PROLIF'ICAL

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Adj.
[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.