单词
pullulate
英 ['p?lj?le?t]
美
基本信息
- vi. 成长；发芽；产生；充满；繁殖
GRE
词态变化
第三人称单数:?pullulates;过去式:?pullulated;过去分词:?pullulated;现在分词:?pullulating;形容词:?pullulating;
中文词源
pullulate 迅速繁殖，大量扩散
来自拉丁语pullulare,生长，繁殖，来自pullulus,小动物，来自pullus的小词形式，来自pullus,小动物，词源同pullet,foal.
英文词源
- pullulate
- pullulate: [17] The etymological notion underlying pullulate is of rapid ‘new growth’. It goes back ultimately to Latin pullus ‘young animal’, which also produced English pony and poultry and is distantly related to foal. From this was derived the verb pullulāre ‘grow, sprout’, whose past participle provided English with pullulate. This too originally meant ‘sprout’, a sense largely displaced since the 19th century by its metaphorical descendant ‘swarm, teem’.
=> foal, pony, poultry, pullet - pullulate (v.)
- 1610s, from Latin pullulatus, past participle of pullulare "put forth, grow, sprout, shoot up, come forth," from pullulus, diminutive of pullus "young animal" (see foal (n.)). Related: Pullulated; pullulating.
双语例句
- 1. As the going says:'seed always take root , pullulate, and blossom out, and result everywhere.
- 有句话 “ 是种子在那儿都能生根, 发牙, 开花, 结果. ”
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