overgrowth
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]overgrowth (countable and uncountable, plural 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.
- 1818, John Keats, “Book I”, in Endymion: A Poetic Romance, London: […] [T. Miller] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 14, line 241:
- 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.