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v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of populate.

"If there was no "niche" life could not populate it, and if life could not populate it, it's not a niche, it follows that any place life populates, is a niche."

populated    populates    populating   

populated    populating   

populous    people    propagate   

copulate    depopulate