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overgrowth

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o·ver·growth  (vr-grth)
n.
A usually abundant, luxuriant growth over or on something else: an overgrowth of ivy on the old house.
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Noun1.overgrowth - excessive size; usually caused by excessive secretion of growth hormone from the pituitary gland
giantism, gigantism
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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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.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
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.
The Essays by Bacon, Sir Francis View in context
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.
Can Such Things Be? by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
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