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swarm1 /swörm/ noun- A body of bees going off to found a new community
- A throng of insects or other small animals
- A throng (of people, or of inanimate objects), esp one on the move, eg a mass of meteorites travelling through space
- A colony, offshoot
intransitive verb- To go off in a swarm
- To occur or come in swarms
- To abound, teem
transitive verb- To cause to swarm
- To throng (chiefly US except in passive)
ORIGIN: OE swearm; Ger Schwarm swarmˈer noun swarmˈing noun and adjective swarmˈ-spore or swarmˈ-cell noun - A free-swimming, generally ciliated, asexual reproductive body (botany)
- An active germ produced by sporulation in Protozoa (zoology)
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