Propagated
[prɔpəɡeitid]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Propagate
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Examples
- By careful selection, many strange varieties have been propagated. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- These bud variations, as they may be named, can be propagated by grafts, offsets, etc. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- They were propagated with all that enthusiastic zeal which commonly animates the spirit of party, when it attacks established authority. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- To prevent the breed of our sheep from being propagated in foreign countries, seems to have been the object of this law. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- For the study of bacteria they are propagated artificially in a test tube--_i. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- With plants which are temporarily propagated by cuttings, buds, etc. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
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