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PROLIFICACY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does prolificacy mean?
• PROLIFICACY (noun)
The noun PROLIFICACY has 1 sense:
1. the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth
Familiarity information: PROLIFICACY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
fertility; prolificacy; rankness; richness
Context example:
weeds lovely in their rankness
Hypernyms ("prolificacy" is a kind of...):
fecundity; fruitfulness (the quality of something that causes or assists healthy growth)
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