pullulation
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- noun The act of germinating or budding.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- noun A germinating, or budding.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- noun A teeming, swarming, or multiplying.
Examples
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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By the time she was six, we were living in a catastrophe of cerise, a riot of rosiness, a pullulation of pinkness.
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I like pullulation; everything ought to increase and multiply as hard as it can.
Note
The word 'pullulation' comes ultimately from a Latin word meaning 'to sprout'.
