propagated
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(of an organism) multiplied by any process of reproduction from the parent stock.
Did pumping out a lot of artificially propagated salmon have a negative impact out in the ocean?
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(of a rumor, idea, doctrine, etc.) spread from person to person; disseminated.
The article gives readers the truth about the proposed reform while debunking widely propagated misinformation.
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(of disease) transmitted from one individual to another.
Not only can transmission of avian viruses to mammals occur, but it can lead to propagated infection.
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(of hereditary features or elements) transmitted to or through offspring.
Birth defects have nothing to do with evolution, as they are not propagated traits and are not a result of adaptation.
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(of an effect) created at a distance, as by electromagnetic waves or energy, compression waves, etc., traveling through space or a physical medium; transmitted.
The propagated signal may take any of a variety of forms, including electromagnetic, optical, or any suitable combination thereof.
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Computers. noting an update or other alteration that has taken effect throughout a network of devices.
Improper security settings or incompletely propagated password changes can cause errors.
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Propagated from runners* instead of seed, Zoysia spreads quickly, crowds out even crab grass.
From Time Magazine Archive
Propagated through 317 Saturday Evening Post covers and countless other illustrations, this consoling fiction made Rockwell seem a reticent monument of Americanism.
From Time Magazine Archive
Propagated, and in all respects cultivated, like the White.
From The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. by Burr, Fearing
Propagated by centuries of isolated homesteaders, heirlooms that survived did so because these superior varieties helped the gardeners' better-nourished babies pass through the gauntlet of childhood illnesses.
From Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway by Solomon, Steve
Propagated motion becomes transformed according to the medium it traverses.
From Genuine Mediumship or The Invisible Powers by Atkinson, William Walker
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