pullulation
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pullulation
asexual reproduction in which a local growth on the surface or in the body of the parent becomes a separate individual
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Pullulation
A germinating, or budding.
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pullulation
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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary Cf. F. pullulation,
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. nybooks.com
Astrophysics is a sub ject wherein surprises also pullulate.
Avatars of a Matter-Antimatter Universe
In England the tokens of remembrance pullulated hardly less. "Queen Victoria" by
I like pullulation; everything ought to increase and multiply as hard as it can. "Crome Yellow" by
Be conservators of my pullulating existence. "Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 22, August 27, 1870" by
Pullulation was forced, swift, marvellous; one could almost hear the grain grow. "Desert Conquest" by
Pullulation of trees, iv. "Zoonomia, Vol. II" by
From the sea-shore to the shady green park, from the park to the dim distance, the land pullulated with people. "From Sea to Sea" by
In England the tokens of remembrance pullulated hardly less. "Queen Victoria" by
The majority of the little circles that once pullulated in Paris no longer exist. "Unicorns" by
Its usually deserted street was pullulating with child life. "The House 'Round the Corner" by
snouts moving out of the slime,
in original darkness, the pullulations,
a clatter of armour, opaque
in the sleep of the bog,
turning back to the chalk of the sources.