pullulate - be teeming, be abuzz; "The garden was swarming with bees"; "The plaza is teeming with undercover policemen"; "her mind pullulated with worries"
grow - increase in size by natural process; "Corn doesn't grow here"; "In these forests, mushrooms grow under the trees"; "her hair doesn't grow much anymore"
germinate - cause to grow or sprout; "the plentiful rain germinated my plants"
4.
pullulate - become abundant; increase rapidly
increase - become bigger or greater in amount; "The amount of work increased"
5.
pullulate - breed freely and abundantly
multiply, breed - have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms); "pandas rarely breed in captivity"; "These bacteria reproduce"
what Mandeville writes in "A vindication of the book": "The short-sighted vulgar, in the chain of causes, seldom can see farther than one link; but those who can enlarge their view, and will give themselves leisure of gazing on the prospects of concatenated events, may in a hundred places see good spring up and pullulate from evil, as naturally as chickens do from eggs.
NNA - 16/9/2012 Gathering for the historic Mass to be held in Lebanon, Beirut City's Waterfront, began early today as thousands of Lebanese, Arab, and foreign people pullulate to participate in Pope Benedict XVI's holy Mass.
41): Vota blando stimulat lenimine | pubes, que vix pullulate in virgine | tenui lanugine (Her pubic hair, barely sprouting with fine down in her girlish state, rouses my desires with its sweet solace).
After injection of the bacterial preparation in drainpipe with a grease clog, microorganisms start actively pullulate in 12-24 hours, effectively converting grease into eco-friendly products of microbial metabolism.