Definition of Populous

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Definition of Populous
	Populous Abounding in people; full of inhabitants; containing many inhabitants in proportion to the extent of the country. Popular; famous. Common; vulgar. Numerous; in large number. Related Definitions: Abounding, Common, Containing, Country, Extent, Famous, Full, In, Large, Many, Number, Numerous, Of, People, Popular, Proportion, The, To, Vulgar

Populous Quotations

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
Aristotle

During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing countries of southern Asia, where widespread famine appeared inevitable only five years ago.
Norman Borlaug

These funerals always appear to me the more indecent in a populous city, from the total indifference of the beholders, and the perfect unconcern with which they are beheld.
Karl Philipp Moritz

The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by Most geneticists, but in small founder populations.
Ernst Mayr

Indeed, I was unable to find any evidence whatsoever of the occurrence of a drastic evolutionary acceleration and genetic reconstruction in widespread, populous species.
Ernst Mayr

I don't believe we are, because I believe that just as 9/11 was an attack on a very populous area, terrorism also looks to see where you can go and where you're not expected.
Bob Wise

Populous Translations

populous in German is volkreich, volkreiche
populous in Swedish is folkrik

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