POLYPHILOPROGENITIVE

PRONUNCIATION: (pol-ee-fi-luh-pro-JEN-uh-tiv)

MEANING: adjective: Extremely prolific.

ETYMOLOGY: From Greek poly- (many) + philo- (loving) + Latin progenitive (producing offspring), from pro- (toward) + past participle of gignere (to beget). Earliest documented use: 1919, in a poem by T.S. Eliot.

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POLYP-HILL-PROGENITIVE - making lots of coral reefs