pullulation

pul·lu·late

P0654500 (pŭl′yə-lāt′)intr.v. pul·lu·lat·ed, pul·lu·lat·ing, pul·lu·lates 1. To breed rapidly or abundantly.2. To be or increase in great numbers: "Ideas pullulated in his brain" (G.D. Dess).3. To teem; swarm: a lagoon that pullulated with fish.

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[Latin pullulāre, pullulāt-, from pullulus, diminutive of pullus, young fowl; see pullet.]

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pul′lu·la′tion n.

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Noun	1.	pullulation - asexual reproduction in which a local growth on the surface or in the body of the parent becomes a separate individualgemmationagamogenesis, asexual reproduction - reproduction without the fusion of gametes
	2.	pullulation - a rapid and abundant increaseincrement, growth, increase - a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important; "the increase in unemployment"; "the growth of population"