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pul·lu·late
(pŭl′yə-lāt′)intr.v.pul·lu·lat·ed,pul·lu·lat·ing,pul·lu·lates
1. To breed rapidly or abundantly.
2. To be or increase in great numbers:"Ideas pullulated in his brain"(G.D. Dess).
3. To teem; swarm:a lagoon that pullulated with fish.
[Latinpullulāre, pullulāt-, frompullulus, diminutive ofpullus,young fowl; see pullet.]
pul′lu·la′tion n.
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pullulate
(ˈpʌljʊˌleɪt)vb (intr)
1. (Biology) (of animals, etc) to breed rapidly or abundantly; teem; swarm
2. (Botany) (of plants or plant parts) to sprout, bud, or germinate
[C17: from Latinpullulāre to sprout, frompullulus a baby animal, frompullus young animal]
ˌpulluˈlationn
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
pul•lu•late
(ˈpʌl yəˌleɪt)v.i.-lat•ed, -lat•ing.
1. to germinate; sprout.
2. to breed or increase rapidly.
3. to swarm; teem.
[1610–20; < Latinpullulātus, past participle ofpullulāre to sprout, derivative ofpullulus a sprout, young animal, diminutive ofpullus; seepullet]
pul`lu•la′tion,n.
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pullulate
Past participle:pullulated
Gerund:pullulating
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I will be pullulating |
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Verb | 1. | pullulate - be teeming, be abuzz; "The garden was swarming with bees"; "The plaza is teeming with undercover policemen"; "her mind pullulated with worries" crawl - be full of; "The old cheese was crawling with maggots" |
2. | pullulate - move in large numbers; "people were pouring out of the theater"; "beggars pullulated in the plaza" crowd together,crowd - to gather together in large numbers; "men in straw boaters and waxed mustaches crowded the verandah" | |
3. | pullulate - produce buds, branches, or germinate; "the potatoes sprouted" grow - increase in size by natural process; "Corn doesn't grow here"; "In these forests, mushrooms grow under the trees"; "her hair doesn't grow much anymore" germinate - cause to grow or sprout; "the plentiful rain germinated my plants" | |
4. | pullulate - become abundant; increase rapidly increase - become bigger or greater in amount; "The amount of work increased" | |
5. | pullulate - breed freely and abundantly |
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His audience was the vile bigots and sociopaths thatpullulate and thrive online.
Although being committed to explain development according to efficient causes, Harvey conceived that an agent was responsible for the advancement and progress of this process: "as soon as the egg, under the influence of the gentle warmth of the incubating hen, or of warmth derived from another source, begins topullulate, this spot forthwith dilates, and expands like the pupil of the eye, and from thence, as the grand centre of the egg, the latent plastic force breaks forth and germinates" (Harvey, 1847, p.
in philosophy from Harvard University, graduating at the top of her class, and who was the first woman of acknowledged African descent to receive a tenured philosophy professorship in this country, has extensively analyzed the ways in which Kantian metaphysics deals with anomalies, the ways the mind rationalizes stereotypes by refusing to synthesize inconvenient facts that eventuallypullulate into xenophobic distortions: racism, homophobia, misogyny, transphobia, etc.
what Mandeville writes in "A vindication of the book": "The short-sighted vulgar, in the chain of causes, seldom can see farther than one link; but those who can enlarge their view, and will give themselves leisure of gazing on the prospects of concatenated events, may in a hundred places see good spring up andpullulate from evil, as naturally as chickens do from eggs.
What most repulses us is putrefaction; there is no greater human aversion, says Bataille, than that felt towards "those unstable, fetid and lukewarm substances where the eggs, germs and maggots swarm." One reason why putrefaction revolts is because I know that one day "this living world willpullulate in my dead mouth." Death is not just the annihilation of being but this "shipwreck in the nauseous," the knowledge that in my own decomposition I will once again become "anonymous, infinite life, which stretches forth like the night, which is death." Death is never pure non-being, but it is ever-present in life as change and decomposition: "Death is that putrefaction, that stench ...
their flesh dries on their bones but still theypullulate, copulate, and amass ...
NNA - 16/9/2012 Gathering for the historic Mass to be held in Lebanon, Beirut City's Waterfront, began early today as thousands of Lebanese, Arab, and foreign peoplepullulate to participate in Pope Benedict XVI's holy Mass.
41): Vota blando stimulat lenimine | pubes, que vixpullulate in virgine | tenui lanugine (Her pubic hair, barely sprouting with fine down in her girlish state, rouses my desires with its sweet solace).
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