Word Meanings - PROLIFICATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To make prolific; to fertilize; to impregnate. Sir T. Browne.

Related words: (words related to PROLIFICATE)

• PROLIFICATION
  Reproduction by the growth of a plant, or part of a plant, directly from an older one, or by gemmæ. (more info) 1. The generation of young.
• IMPREGNATE
  To come into contact with so as to cause impregnation; to fertilize; to fecundate. 3. To infuse an active principle into; to render frutful or fertile in any way; to fertilize; to imbue. 4. To infuse particles of another substance into;
• PROLIFICACY
  Prolificness.
• FERTILIZE
  1. To make fertile or enrich; to supply with nourishment for plants; to make fruitful or productive; as, to fertilize land, soil, ground, and meadows. And fertilize the field that each pretends to gain. Byron. 2. To fecundate; as, to fertilize
• PROLIFICAL
  Producing young or fruit abundantly; fruitful; prolific. -- Pro*lif"ic*al*ly, adv.
• PROLIFICNESS
  The quality or state of being prolific; fruitfulness; prolificacy.
• PROLIFICATE
  To make prolific; to fertilize; to impregnate. Sir T. Browne.
• FERTILIZER
  1. One who fertilizes; the agent that carries the fertilizing principle, as a moth to an orchid. A. R. Wallace. 2. That which renders fertile; a general name for commercial manures, as guano, phosphate of lime, etc.
• PROLIFIC
  Proliferous. (more info) pro for, forward + the root of alere to nourish) + facere to make. 1. Having the quality of generating; producing young or fruit; generative; fruitful; productive; -- applied to plants producing fruit, animals producing
• SELF-FERTILIZED
  Fertilized by pollen from the same flower.
• IMPROLIFICATE
  To impregnate. Sir T. Browne.
• REIMPREGNATE
  To impregnate again or anew. Sir T. Browne.
• WIND-FERTILIZED
  Anemophilous; fertilized by pollen borne by the wind.
• CROSS-FERTILIZE
  To fertilize, as the stigmas of a flower or plant, with the pollen from another individual of the same species.
• IMPROLIFIC
  Not prolific. E. Waterhouse.