Overgrowth

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  overgrowth \o"ver*growth`\, n.
     1. Excessive growth.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. A growth that has covered somethin over.
        [PJC]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  overgrowth
       n 1: excessive size; usually caused by excessive secretion of
            growth hormone from the pituitary gland [syn: {giantism},
             {gigantism}]
       2: a profusion of growth on or over something else

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  56 Moby Thesaurus words for "overgrowth":
     abandon, boundlessness, egregiousness, enormousness, exaggeration,
     excess, excessiveness, exorbitance, exorbitancy, extravagance,
     extravagancy, extreme, extremes, extremism, extremity,
     fabulousness, giantism, gigantism, gluttony, hyperbole,
     hypertrophy, immoderacy, immoderateness, immoderation,
     incontinence, inordinacy, inordinance, inordinateness,
     intemperance, intemperateness, inundation, monstrousness, nimiety,
     outrageousness, outsize, overdevelopment, overflowing,
     overgreatness, overindulgence, overlargeness, overmuch,
     overmuchness, overpass, overrun, overrunning, overspreading,
     overweight, radicalism, superiority, surplus, too much,
     too-muchness, unconscionableness, undueness, unreasonableness,
     unrestrainedness