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n. - A rapid and abundant increase; Asexual reproduction in which a local growth on the surface or in the body of the parent becomes a separate individual.

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  • Thanks to blogs and burgeoning user content platforms, ( "the pullulation of commentary," as MacDonald puts it), everyone today is a critic.
  • To begin with, have you remarked that pullulation of new idioms used by Norpois which, exhausted by daily use — for really he is indefatigable and I believe the death of...
  • The one chiefly noticed by contemporaries was the pullulation of new sects.
  • The approaches to the monorail station were black with the ant-like pullulation of lower-caste activity.
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