| puff |
a short light gust of air smoke and exhale strongly; "puff a cigar"; "whiff a pipe" a light inflated pastry or puff shell suck in or take (air); "draw a deep breath"; "draw on a cigarette" exaggerated praise (as for promotional purposes) pant: breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted; "The runners reached the finish line, panting heavily" quilt: bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together make proud or conceited; "The sudden fame puffed her ego" powderpuff: a soft spherical object made from fluffy fibers; for applying powder to the skin praise extravagantly; "The critics puffed up this Broadway production" ottoman: thick cushion used as a seat speak in a blustering or scornful manner; "A puffing kind of man" a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke); "he took a puff on his pipe"; "he took a drag on his cigarette and expelled the smoke slowly" to swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs"; "puffed out chests" blow: forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth; "he gave his nose a loud blow"; "he blew out all the candles with a single puff" blow hard and loudly; "he huffed and puffed as he made his way up the mountain" gathered for protruding fullness; "puff sleeves"
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| Pulex |
type genus of the Pulicidae
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| Pulex irritans |
the most common flea attacking humans
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| pullulate |
teem: be teeming, be abuzz; "The garden was swarming with bees"; "The plaza is teeming with undercover policemen"; "her mind pullulated with worries" pour: move in large numbers; "people were pouring out of the theater"; "beggars pullulated in the plaza" shoot: produce buds, branches, or germinate; "the potatoes sprouted" become abundant; increase rapidly breed freely and abundantly
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| pullulation |
asexual reproduction in which a local growth on the surface or in the body of the parent becomes a separate individual a rapid and abundant increase
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