repullulate
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin repullulō, repullulātum, from pullulō. See pullulate.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editrepullulate (third-person singular simple present repullulates, present participle repullulating, simple past and past participle repullulated)
- (intransitive) To bud again.
- 1640, I. H. [i.e., James Howell], ΔΕΝΔΡΟΛΟΓΊΑ [DENDROLOGIA]. Dodona’s Grove, or, The Vocall Forrest, London: […] T[homas] B[adger] for H. Mosley [i.e., Humphrey Moseley] […], →OCLC:
- Though tares repullulate, there is wheat still left in the field.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “repullulate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)