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o·ver·growth

(ō′vər-grōth′)
n.
A usually abundant, luxuriant growth over or on something else: an overgrowth of ivy on the old house.
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o•ver•growth

(ˈoʊ vərˌgroʊθ)

n.
1. a growth overspreading or covering something.
2. excessive growth.
[1595–1605]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun 1. overgrowth - excessive size; usually caused by excessive secretion of growth hormone from the pituitary gland
hyperpituitarism - excessive activity of the pituitary gland (especially overactivity of the anterior lobe which leads to excess secretion of growth hormone)
hypertrophy - abnormal enlargement of a body part or organ
2. overgrowth - a profusion of growth on or over something else
profuseness, profusion, richness, cornucopia - the property of being extremely abundant; "the profusion of detail"; "the idiomatic richness of English"
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Translations

overgrowth

n. proliferación excesiva.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

overgrowth

n sobrecrecimiento
English-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
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And even when recognised at last, their immense magnitude renders it very hard really to believe that such bulky masses of overgrowth can possibly be instinct, in all parts, with the same sort of life that lives in a dog or a horse.
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The fortune in being the first, in an invention or in a privilege, doth cause sometimes a wonderful overgrowth in riches; as it was with the first sugar man, in the Canaries.
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On every side of me stretched a bleak and desolate expanse of plain, covered with a tall overgrowth of sere grass, which rustled and whistled in the autumn wind with heaven knows what mysterious and disquieting suggestion.
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The ridge of the cottage roof was usually a bright green with its overgrowth of mosses and house-leeks, and the thatch was brown as a chestnut shell, but just now it seemed to be powdered with a golden dust.
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