Meanings
plural pullulations
- uncountableusuallyA teeming, swarming, or multiplying.
1 more example
[The cats] took not the slightest notice of either Mr. Flay or of himself save for the sudden cessation of their purring. When they had stood in the darkness, and before Mr. Flay had removed the bunch of keys from his pocket, Steerpike had imagined he had heard a heavy, deep throbbing, a monotonous sea-like drumming of sound, and he now knew that it must have been the pullulation of the tribe.
1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan
Synonyms & antonyms
nounasexual reproduction in which a local growth on the surface or in the body of the parent becomes a separate individual
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
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pullulation. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pullulation
“pullulation.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pullulation. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pullulation,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pullulation.
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