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pullulating

pullulating is the present participle and gerund 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 pullulating

What is pullulating the present participle and gerund of?
Pullulating is the present participle and gerund of pullulate.

Words near pullulating in the dictionary

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

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