Proliferate

[prə'lɪfəreɪt] or [prə'lɪfə'ret]

解释:

(verb.) cause to grow or increase rapidly; 'We must not proliferate nuclear arms'.

(verb.) grow rapidly; 'Pizza parlors proliferate in this area'.

桃瑞丝整理--From WordNet

解释:

(v. t.) To produce or form cells; especially, to produce cells rapidly.

(v. t.) To produce zooids by budding.

乔安娜录入

解释:

v.i. to grow by multiplication of elementary parts: (zool.) to reproduce by proliferation.—v.t. to bear by reproduction.—n. Proliferā′tion the birth and growth of generative zoé°…ds.—adjs. Prolif′erātive Prolif′erous.—adv. Prolif′erously.

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