pullulating
Swarming with life
Pullulating means teeming, swarming, or breeding abundantly.
The word suggests rapid multiplication or proliferation, often with connotations of organic growth pushing outward: pullulating crowds filled the streets, the pullulating mass of bacteria.
It can describe anything breeding or spreading vigorously—insects, ideas, rumors, or urban sprawl.
The tone is typically vivid and slightly literary.
Releasing eggs to reproduce
- reproducingCreating copies or offspring
- buddingDeveloping from an outgrowth
- sproutingSeeds beginning growth
- mitosisNuclear division producing identical cells
fission · replicating · generating · hatching · incubating · larvae · offspring · brooding
Prospering vigorously
- bloomingProducing flowers now
- thrivingSucceeding vigorously
- burstingBreaking from internal pressure
- expandingGrowing in scope
growing · developing · maturing · ripening · verdant · lush · luxuriant · vigorous
spawning
Releasing eggs to reproduce
- reproducingCreating copies or offspring
- buddingDeveloping from an outgrowth
- sproutingSeeds beginning growth
mitosis · fission · replicating · generating · hatching · incubating · larvae · offspring · brooding · fertile
flourishing
Prospering vigorously
expanding · growing · developing · maturing · ripening · verdant · lush · luxuriant · vigorous · blossoming
teeming
Abundantly full of
jammed · stuffed · overflowing · bursting · dense · heaving · mobbed · saturated · thronged · seething
teeming
Abundantly full of
hiving · locusts · ants · bees · mosquitoes · gnats · flies · insects · murmuration · flock
pullulatingdiminishing
Becoming progressively less
sparse · dwindling · dying out · disappearing · shrinking
breeding, swarming, propagation, multiplying, proliferate, propagating, proliferation, germination, germinating