pullulate
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
- arrow points to the broader concept
- dashed outline: no word in this language
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
be teeming, be abuzz
The garden was swarming with bees
Types & categories
Related & opposite
Sense 2 verb
move in large numbers
people were pouring out of the theater
Types & categories
- crowd together hypernym
- spill out hyponym
Related & opposite
Sense 3 verb
produce buds, branches, or germinate
the potatoes sprouted
Types & categories
- grow hypernym
Related & opposite
- germ derivation
- sprout derivation
- sprout derivation
- shoot derivation
- germination derivation
- pullulation derivation
- germinate verb group
Sense 4 verb
become abundant; increase rapidly
Types & categories
- increase hypernym
Related & opposite
- pullulation derivation
Sense 5 verb
breed freely and abundantly
Types & categories
- multiply hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | also see | Related & opposite | abound in |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | swarm |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | swarm |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | seethe |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | crawl |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | swarm |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | stream |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | crowd together |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | spill out |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | germ |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | sprout |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | sprout |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | shoot |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | germination |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | pullulation |
| 3 | verb group | Related & opposite | germinate |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | grow |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | pullulation |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | increase |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | multiply |