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pullulates

pullulates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pullulate.

Meaning of pullulate

Verb

pullulate (third-person singular simple present pullulates, present participle pullulating, simple past and past participle pullulated)

  1. To multiply rapidly.
  2. To germinate.
  3. To teem with; to be filled (with).
    • I must say the whole of Oxford has become most peculiar suddenly. Last night it was pullulating with women.1945, Evelyn Waugh, chapter 1, in Brideshead Revisited […], London: Chapman & Hall, published 1952, →OCLC, book 1 (Et in Arcadia Ego), page 22

Questions about pullulates

What is pullulates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Pullulates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pullulate.

Words near pullulates in the dictionary

  1. pullulanases
  2. pullulans
  3. pullulant
  4. pullulate
  5. pullulated
  6. pullulates
  7. pullulating
  8. pullulation
  9. pullulations
  10. pullulative
  11. Pullum

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