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  • 31teem — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. swarm, abound; multiply, pullulate; rain heavily, pour; bear, generate, produce. See production, sufficiency. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. abound, overflow, swell, pour, be plentiful, pour out, swarm,… …

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  • 32foal — [OE] Foal goes back to a prehistoric source meaning ‘young, offspring’, which also produced Latin puer ‘child’ and English pony, poultry, pullet, pullulate, and even pool ‘common fund’. Its main Germanic descendant was *folon, which gave German… …

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  • 33foal — [OE] Foal goes back to a prehistoric source meaning ‘young, offspring’, which also produced Latin puer ‘child’ and English pony, poultry, pullet, pullulate, and even pool ‘common fund’. Its main Germanic descendant was *folon, which gave German… …

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  • 34bourgeon — verb produce buds, branches, or germinate the potatoes sprouted • Syn: ↑shoot, ↑spud, ↑germinate, ↑pullulate, ↑burgeon forth, ↑sprout • Derivationally related forms: ↑ …

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  • 35burgeon forth — verb produce buds, branches, or germinate the potatoes sprouted • Syn: ↑shoot, ↑spud, ↑germinate, ↑pullulate, ↑bourgeon, ↑sprout • Derivationally related forms: ↑ …

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  • 36pullulation — noun 1. asexual reproduction in which a local growth on the surface or in the body of the parent becomes a separate individual • Syn: ↑gemmation • Derivationally related forms: ↑pullulate • Hypernyms: ↑asexual reproduction, ↑agamogenesis 2 …

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  • 37Repullulate — Re*pul lu*late (r? p?l l? l?t), v. i. [L. repullulare, repullulatum. See {Pullulate}.] To bud again. [1913 Webster] Though tares repullulate, there is wheat still left in the field. Howell. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 38pullulation — noun see pullulate …

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  • 39St. Bartholomew's Day massacre — Painting by François Dubois, a Huguenot painter born circa 1529 in Amiens, who settled in Switzerland. Although Dubois did not witness the massacre, he depicts Admiral Coligny s body hanging out of a window at the rear to the right. To the left… …

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  • 40Parasitoid — SEM image of endoparasitoid ciliates of the genus Collinia, which can cause mass mortality in affected krill populations A parasitoid is an organism that spends a significant portion of its life history attached to or within a single host… …

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