Pronounced: PREH-sij, verb
Notes: Another word I don’t recall having seen (and my guess was way off)
Yesterday’s word
The word pullulate means
- to sprout or breed
- to swarm or teem
- to increase rapidly
First usage
Our word came into English in the early 1600s
Background / Comments
Our word came from the Latin word pullulare (to sprout), which came from pullulus, which is a diminutive of pullus (chicken; young animal), which came from pullus (young animal).
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