To remember the history of "pullulate," think chickens. From Wordnik.com. [Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day] Reference
This may sound like odd advice, but it makes sense if you know that "pullulate" traces ultimately to the Latin noun "pullus," which means not only "sprout," but also "young of an animal" and, specifically. From Wordnik.com. [Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day] Reference
May a corroding colony of carking cares be ever ready to pullulate afresh out of the secret springs of your anticipated comforts! and may the purgatorial pitch of the Slough of Despond envelope you eternally like flies in amber!. From Wordnik.com. [A Dialogue for the Year 2130] Reference
There is no fear that the professors who pullulate all over the Baltic Plain will overcome the. From Wordnik.com. [The Appetite of Tyranny Including Letters to an Old Garibaldian] Reference
And in the pitch dark, red lights pullulate around doorways and glow inside the prostitutes 'windows, enticing you to peer in and see the half-naked women themselves waiting for another client. From Wordnik.com. [Taipei Times] Reference
Therefore spodizators, gesinins, memains, and parazons, be not culpable of dilatory protractions in the apposition of every re-roborating species, but rather let them pullulate and superabound on the tables. From Wordnik.com. [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5] Reference
Hotels will appear out of the ground, guides and touts will pullulate at the railway station, the tour of the ruins will be mapped out, and the tourists and globe - trotters of the whole planet will follow that tour in batches like staring sheep. From Wordnik.com. [Over There War Scenes on the Western Front] Reference
Then, I am blamed for preferring the indicative to what I suppose may be the potential mood in the case of 'need' and 'dare' -- just that unlucky couple: by all means go on and say 'He need help, he dare me to fight,' and so pair off with 'He need not beg, he dare not reply,' forms which may be expected to pullulate in this morning's newspaper. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)] Reference
I didn’t know yet about white blood cells, about how they pullulate and crowd out the red ones out, the ones that carry oxygen. From Wordnik.com. [Dreaming in French] Reference
All your wife wanted was love and trust me,” as the earthworm spoke it curved and rolled into a spiral, its other end started to throb and pullulate, “I gave her lots … and lots!”. From Wordnik.com. [Caterpillars in love.] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Samuel Pepys] Reference
Dhâraṇî or Tantra pullulate and multiply. From Wordnik.com. [Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3] Reference
50.a. accure b. exuberate c. numerous d. pullulate Ans: (a) Explanation: accure = grow in natural form, to be added by way of advantage. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
(Or should that be putresce and pullulate?). From Wordnik.com. [News » Julie Henry] Reference
And we pullulate. From Wordnik.com. [A Transit to Narcissus] Reference
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