pullulation

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I like pullulation; everything ought to increase and multiply as hard as it can. "

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  1. The act of germinating or budding. These were the Generations or Pullulations of the Heavenly and Earthly Nature. Dr. H. More, Moral Cabbala, ii.
  2. Specifically, in botany, a mode of cell-multiplication in which a cell forms a slight protuberance on one side, which afterward increases to the size of the parent-cell, and is cut off from it by the formation of a dividing wall at the narrow point of junction: same as sprouting. This mode of multiplication is especially characteristic of the yeast-plant and its allies.

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  • I like pullulation; everything ought to increase and multiply as hard as it can. " —  Crome Yellow
  • The one chiefly noticed by contemporaries was the pullulation of new sects. —  The Age of the Reformation
  • _Tyndaridea, _ but, after a time, little swellings occur on their sides, in which a distinct endochrome is formed, extending backwards into the parent endochrome, separated from it by a well defined membrane, and producing, either by repeated pullulation, a compound mass like that of _Calothrix, _ or simply giving rise to a forked thread. —  Himalayan Journals — Complete
  • Another glacial period or an overwhelming catastrophe of cosmic origin may fortunately, at some distant epoch, check the blind process of destruction of natural things and the insane pullulation of humanity. —  More Science From an Easy Chair
  • The extension of the old vessels seems rather a consequence than a cause of the germination, or pullulation, of these new ones; for the old vessels may be enlarged, and excited with unusual energy, without any production of new ones, as in the blush of shame or of anger. —  Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
 

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  1. = French pullulation = Portuguese pullulação = Italian pullulazione, from Latin as if *pullulatio(n-), from pullulare, past participle pullulatus, pullulate: see pullulate.
 

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