Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of germinating or budding.
- n. 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.
Wiktionary
- n. A teeming, swarming, or multiplying.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A germinating, or budding.
WordNet 3.0
- n. asexual reproduction in which a local growth on the surface or in the body of the parent becomes a separate individual
- n. a rapid and abundant increase
Etymologies
- pullulate + -ion (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Thanks to blogs and burgeoning user content platforms, ( "the pullulation of commentary," as MacDonald puts it), everyone today is a critic.”
Amateurism, the Internet and Literary Criticism: by Nigel Beale
“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 my Aunt Ville-parisis gave him a second youth — are immediately replaced by others that are in general use.”
“Nonetheless, the Dahna adherents saw the incursion and pullulation of life through the universe as a horrible error.”
“To pay one's $5.00 and join the full house at the Translux for the evening show of Last Tango in Paris is to be reminded once again that the planet is in a state of pullulation.”
“It must be admitted that this city, with its starved professional classes, its lavish governmental display, and its pullulation of an exploiting class, sometimes presents an unattractive appearance.”
“The approaches to the monorail station were black with the ant-like pullulation of lower-caste activity.”
“No good ever came of argument and dialectic, for these breed only angry gestures and gusty disputes (_de gustibus non disputandum_) and the ruin of friendships and the very fruitful pullulation of”
“The one chiefly noticed by contemporaries was the pullulation of new sects.”
“Physics cannot account for that minute motion and pullulation in the earth's crust of which human affairs are a portion.”
“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.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pullulation’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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eesome
Includes any intangible conceivable independently of Hom. Sap.
depthless, overspire, unsteady, thitherward, rile, munchable, covet, pastinaceous, mirtle, slonk, tink, inerrarable and 345 more...
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nether's list
adroit, recrudescent, ecclesiastical, canaille, philologian, ignoble, dilettante, vicegerant, gilt, enfiladed, somnambulism, gamin and 215 more...
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Brave New World
Words gathered while reading Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
penitente, pyrrhonic, ossuary, henry-georgian, kropotkinesque, scopolamine, bokanovsky, semi-moron, hypnopaedia, welfare-tyranny, fretsawyer, theremogene and 85 more...
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De Rigueur...Mortis
That which includes but is not entirely limited to: dark arts, putrescence, civil society, medical terminal~logy.
jackelope, amputty, meat slurry, necromance, phylophilia, mormo, mormolyca, geeschter, grimmoire, sepultritude, frow, irony bored and 53 more...
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Gormenghastocabulary
Words I especially enjoyed while reading Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake.
recrudescent, propinquital, calid, rissoles, stenching, crapulous, pullulation, spilths, lambent, rabous, byre, lapsury and 33 more...
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Words to memorize
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transformations
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sarah's list
crassulent, melancholy, chutzpah, languor, pullulation, vacivity
Tweets
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seanahan He is using the third definition. Mar 29, 2008
reesetee Let's hope Huxley wasn't consulting WeirdNet when he wrote this. At least not the first definition. Mar 28, 2008
sionnach Oh, and I thought it was just the noise that a pig made upon seeing its sibling be served up in a barbeque sandwich.
(deriving from the terms 'ululation' and 'pulled pork sandwich') Mar 28, 2008
yarb "Couldn't you give the animals a little holiday from producing children?" asked Anne. "I'm so sorry for the poor things."
Mr. Wimbush shook his head. "Personally," he said, "I rather like seeing fourteen pigs grow where only one grew before. The spectacle of so much crude life is refreshing."
"I'm glad to hear you say so," Gombauld broke in warmly. "Lots of life: that's what we want. I like pullulation; everything ought to increase and multiply as hard as it can."
- Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow Mar 28, 2008