pullulation

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   rapid growth or multiplication, especially in large numbers

   The pullulation of tiny shops transformed the neighborhood within a year.

2. 2
   noun

   reproduction by budding in which a growth separates from its parent organism

   The biologist observed pullulation in the freshwater hydra.

From French pullulation, from Latin pullulare, meaning ‘to sprout or multiply,’ itself related to pullus, ‘a young animal or shoot.’

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