Swarm Synonyms & Definitions

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• SwarmDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (v. i.) To be crowded; to be thronged with a multitude of beings in motion.
2. (v. i.) To breed multitudes.
3. (v. i.) To abound; to be filled (with).
4. (v. i.) To climb a tree, pole, or the like, by embracing it with the arms and legs alternately. See Shin.
5. (v. t.) To crowd or throng.
6. (v. i.) To appear or collect in a crowd; to throng together; to congregate in a multitude.
7. (n.) Hence, any great number or multitude, as of people in motion, or sometimes of inanimate objects; as, a swarm of meteorites.
8. (v. i.) To collect, and depart from a hive by flight in a body; -- said of bees; as, bees swarm in warm, clear days in summer.
9. (n.) A large number or mass of small animals or insects, especially when in motion.
10. (n.) Especially, a great number of honeybees which emigrate from a hive at once, and seek new lodgings under the direction of a queen; a like body of bees settled permanently in a hive.

• SwarmsporeDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (n.) One of the minute flagellate germs produced by the sporulation of a protozoan; -- called also zoospore.
2. (n.) One of innumerable minute, motile, reproductive bodies, produced asexually by certain algae and fungi; a zoospore.