overgrowth
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overgrowth
noun overgrowths
- A usually abundant, luxuriant growth over or on something else.
- A tangle of growth occurring at the top of trees involving vines and branches, common in jungles. In desolate places where dank moisture breeds / The pipy Hemlock to strange overgrowth
- An excessive growth or increase in numbers, as in a population of weeds or microbes.
- Excessive size; usually caused by over-production of growth hormone from the pituitary gland.
Similar: hyperplasia, hypertrophy, gigantism · Opposite: undergrowth
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noun
Similar: hyperplasia, hypertrophy, gigantism · Opposite: undergrowth
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title = {overgrowth},
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