pullulate

Borrowed from Latin pullulātus, perfect passive participle of pullulō (“sprout forth”), from pullulus (“a young animal, a sprout”), diminutive of pullus.

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈpʌl.jʊ.leɪt/

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pullulate (third-person singular simple present pullulates, present participle pullulating, simple past and past participle pullulated)

1. To multiply rapidly.
2. To germinate.
3. To teem; to be filled (with).
   • 1945, Evelyn Waugh, chapter 1, in Brideshead Revisited […], 3rd edition, London: Chapman & Hall, →OCLC, book 1 (Et in Arcadia Ego), page 22:

     I must say the whole of Oxford has become most peculiar suddenly. Last night it was pullulating with women.

• pullulation

• repullulate

pullulate

1. inflection of pullulare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

pullulate f pl

1. feminine plural of pullulato

pullulāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of pullulō