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Prolific

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.

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Fruitful 84% connected

Full of fruit; producing fruit abundantly; bearing results; prolific; fertile; liberal; bountiful; as, a fruitful tree, or season, or soil; a fruitfu…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Fruitful 84% connected

Full of fruit; producing fruit abundantly; bearing results; prolific; fertile; liberal; bountiful; as, a fruitful tree, or season, or soil; a fruitfu…

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Productive 84% connected

Having the quality or power of producing; yielding or furnishing results; as, productive soil; productive enterprises; productive labor, that which i…

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Productive 84% connected

Having the quality or power of producing; yielding or furnishing results; as, productive soil; productive enterprises; productive labor, that which i…

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Fecundity 74% connected

The quality or power of producing fruit; fruitfulness; especially (Biol.), the quality in female organisms of reproducing rapidly and in great number…

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Fecundity 74% connected

The quality or power of producing fruit; fruitfulness; especially (Biol.), the quality in female organisms of reproducing rapidly and in great number…

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Fecund 92% connected

Fruitful in children; prolific.

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Fertile 92% connected

Producing fruit or vegetation in abundance; fruitful; able to produce abundantly; prolific; fecund; productive; rich; inventive; as, fertile land or…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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-gen unknown · 78% connection

A suffix used in scientific words in the sense of producing, generating: as, amphigen, amidogen, halogen.

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Assumpsit noun · 78% connection

An action to recover damages for a breach or nonperformance of a contract or promise, express or implied, oral or in writing not under…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: generating, producing, young, fruit, generative.
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Barren adjective · 78% connection

Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; -- said of women and female animals.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: generating, producing, young, fruit, generative.
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Battel adjective · 78% connection

Fertile; fruitful; productive.

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Bear verb · 78% connection

To produce, as fruit; to be fruitful, in opposition to barrenness.

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Bruise noun · 78% connection

An injury to the flesh of animals, or to plants, fruit, etc., with a blunt or heavy instrument, or by collision with some other body;…

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Carpogenic adjective · 78% connection

Productive of fruit, or causing fruit to be developed.

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Childing verb · 78% connection

Bearing Children; (Fig.) productive; fruitful.

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Condonation noun · 78% connection

Forgiveness, either express or implied, by a husband of his wife or by a wife of her husband, for a breach of marital duty, as adulter…

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Effete adjective · 78% connection

No longer capable of producing young, as an animal, or fruit, as the earth; hence, worn out with age; exhausted of energy; incapable o…

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Fecundation noun · 78% connection

The act by which, either in animals or plants, material prepared by the generative organs the female organism is brought in contact wi…

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Feracious adjective · 78% connection

Fruitful; producing abundantly.

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Fertilize verb · 78% connection

To make fertile or enrich; to supply with nourishment for plants; to make fruitful or productive; as, to fertilize land, soil, ground,…

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Frigorifical adjective · 78% connection

Causing cold; producing or generating cold.

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Fructification noun · 78% connection

The act of forming or producing fruit; the act of fructifying, or rendering productive of fruit; fecundation.

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Fructify verb · 78% connection

To make fruitful; to render productive; to fertilize; as, to fructify the earth.

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Fructuous adjective · 78% connection

Fruitful; productive; profitable.

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Frugiferous adjective · 78% connection

Producing fruit; fruitful; fructiferous.

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