Word Meanings - OVERGROWTH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Excessive growth.

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.