Fertile; producing offspring or fruit in abundance, applied to plants producing fruit, animals producing young, etc.
Similarly producing results or performing deeds in abundance.
However appealing Antibes may be to migrant authors, indigenous ones are relatively scarce. A notable exception is Jacques Audiberti, Antibes-born novelist and prolific playwright who wrote in the turn-of-the-century surrealist style, with titles that translate as Slaughter, or In Favour of Infanticide.
Of a flower: from which another flower is produced.
1635: from French prolifique and its etymon Latin prōlificus, from prōlēs (“offspring”) + -ficus (“making”).
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