Pullulate

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pullulate \Pul"lu*late\, v. i. [L. pullulatus, p. p. of
     pullulare to sprout, from pullulus a young animal, a sprout,
     dim. of pullus. See {pullet}.]
     To germinate; to bud; to multiply abundantly. --Warburton.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pullulate
       v 1: be teeming, be abuzz; "The garden was swarming with bees";
            "The plaza is teeming with undercover policemen"; "her
            mind pullulated with worries" [syn: {teem}, {swarm}]
       2: move in large numbers; "people were pouring out of the
          theater"; "beggars pullulated in the plaza" [syn: {pour},
          {swarm}, {stream}, {teem}]
       3: produce buds, branches, or germinate; "the potatoes
          sprouted" [syn: {shoot}, {spud}, {germinate}, {bourgeon},
          {burgeon forth}, {sprout}]
       4: become abundant; increase rapidly
       5: breed freely and abundantly

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  87 Moby Thesaurus words for "pullulate":
     abound, abound with, be alive with, be fruitful, be productive,
     beget, blossom, brew, bristle with, bud, burgeon, burst forth,
     burst with, clutter, crawl, crawl with, creep with, crowd, develop,
     engender, fill, flood, flourish, flow, fructify, gather, gemmate,
     germinate, grow, grow rank, grow up, hypertrophy, increase, jam,
     know no bounds, leaf, leaf out, leave, luxuriate, mature, multiply,
     mushroom, outgrow, overabound, overbrim, overdevelop, overflow,
     overflow with, overgrow, overrun, overspill, overspread, overswarm,
     overtop, pack, procreate, proliferate, pullulate with, put forth,
     put forth leaves, put out buds, reproduce, riot, root, run riot,
     shoot, shoot up, spill over, spring up, sprout, sprout up,
     strike root, superabound, swarm, swarm with, take root, teem,
     teem with, thrive, throng with, tower, upshoot, upspear, upspring,
     upsprout, vegetate, wax