| verb | be teeming, be abuzz “The garden was swarming with bees” |
| verb | move in large numbers “people were pouring out of the theater” |
| verb | produce buds, branches, or germinate “the potatoes sprouted” |
| verb | become abundant; increase rapidly |
| verb | breed freely and abundantly |
| swarm | noun | a group of many things in the air or on the ground |
| stream | noun | something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously |
| shoot | noun | a new branch |
| germ | noun | a small apparently simple structure (as a fertilized egg) from which new tissue can develop into a complete organism |
| germination | noun | the process whereby seeds or spores sprout and begin to grow |
| pullulation | noun | asexual reproduction in which a local growth on the surface or in the body of the parent becomes a separate individual |
| sprout | noun | a newly grown bud (especially from a germinating seed) |
| sprouting | noun | the process whereby seeds or spores sprout and begin to grow |