propagate
verbVerb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they propagate | |
he / she / it propagates | |
past simple propagated | |
past participle propagated | |
-ing form propagating |
- [transitive] propagate something (formal)
to spread an idea, a belief or a piece of information among many people 传播;宣传 - [transitive, intransitive] propagate (something) (specialist)
to produce new plants from a parent plant 繁殖;增殖 The plant can be propagated from seed. 这种植物可由种子繁殖。 Plants won't propagate in these conditions. 植物在这种条件下不能繁殖。
Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin propagat- ‘multiplied from layers or shoots’, from the verb propagare; related to propago ‘young shoot’ (from a base meaning ‘fix’).