Word Meanings - OVERGROWTH - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Excessive growth.
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- GROWTHEAD
A lazy person; a blockhead. Tusser. - EXCESSIVE
Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch. Excessive grief the enemy to the living. Shak. Syn. -- Undue; exorbitant; extreme; overmuch; enormous; immoderate; monstrous; intemperate; unreasonable. See Enormous --Ex*cess*ive*ly, - GROWTH
1. The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full size or maturity; increase in size, number, frequency, strength, etc.; augmentation; advancement; production; - GROWTHFUL
Having capacity of growth. J. Hamilton. - MISGROWTH
Bad growth; an unnatural or abnormal growth. - INGROWTH
A growth or development inward. J. LeConte. - OUTGROWTH
That which grows out of, or proceeds from, anything; an excrescence; an offshoot; hence, a result or consequence. - UPGROWTH
The process or result of growing up; progress; development. The new and mighty upgrowth of poetry in Italy. J. R. Green. - OVERGROWTH
Excessive growth. - REGROWTH
The act of regrowing; a second or new growth. Darwin. The regrowth of limbs which had been cut off. A. B. Buckley. - AFTERGROWTH
A second growth or crop, or development. J. S. Mill. - UNDERGROWTH
That which grows under trees; specifically, shrubs or small trees growing among large trees. Milton.