Word of the day: pullulate

The word of the day is pullulate:

1. to send forth sprouts, buds, etc.; germinate; sprout.
2. to breed, produce, or create rapidly.
3. to increase rapidly; multiply.
4. to exist abundantly; swarm; teem.
5. to be produced as offspring.

1619, from L. pullulatus, pp. of pullulare "grow, sprout," from pullulus, dim. of pullus "young animal."

(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pullulate)

"Because the mountains catch all the moisture from the Amazon winds, the terrain is as wet as it is steep.  It is also pullulatingly alive: howling with insects, hot and humid as demon's breath, perpetually shades by mats of lianas and branches."

 - Charles Mann, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus