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[PUL-yah-late'] 
1. to produce buds, sprouts, or branches of plants; to germinate
2. to become abundant; increase rapidly; to teem or swarm
3. to breed freely and abundantly: "What seemed like a small, adorable problem, became much larger and more serious as the kittens began to pullulate, and their ranks increased exponentially."
noun form: pullulation
adjective form: pullulative
Origin:
Approximately 1620; from Latin, 'pullulatus', participle of 'pullulare': to sprout; from 'pullus', diminutive of 'pullus': young fowl. In Action:
"His favorite ejaculation, 'Lord!' occurs but once that I have observed in 1660, never in '61, twice in '62, and at least five times in '63; after which the 'Lords' may be said to pullulate like herrings, with here and there a solitary 'damned,' as it were a whale among the shoal. He and his wife, once filled with dudgeon by some innocent freedoms at a marriage, are soon content to go pleasuring with my Lord Brouncker's mistress, who was not even, by his own account, the most discreet of mistresses. Tag, rag, and bobtail, dancing, singing, and drinking become his natural element."
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894). Scottish novelist and poet. 'Samuel Pepys'. | |
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