pullulate
verb (used without object)
to send forth sprouts, buds, etc.; germinate; sprout.
pullulation
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a word derived from
pullulate.
Example Sentences
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Scripps had said pullulation meant the swarming of bees.
From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2022
The judges reinstated Harini after concluding that she was not incorrect when she said that pullulation meant the nesting of mating birds.
From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2022
He loathes . . . the swarming life of insects and the pullulation of plants.
From Time Magazine Archive
Compared with Indian sculpture, from which it ultimately derives, Cambodian art is quite restricted in its range of subject: there isn't the same bewildering pullulation of different gods.
From Time Magazine Archive
The one chiefly noticed by contemporaries was the pullulation of new sects.
From The Age of the Reformation by Preserved Smith
