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overgrowth
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun overgrowth has 2 senses
- overgrowth(n = noun.state) giantism, gigantism - excessive size; usually caused by excessive secretion of growth hormone from the pituitary gland; Array has parts: hyperpituitarism
- overgrowth(n = noun.attribute) Array - a profusion of growth on or over something else; Array is a kind of cornucopia, profuseness, profusion, richness
is a kind of hypertrophy
CIDE DICTIONARY
overgrowth, n.
- Excessive growth. [1913 Webster]
- A growth that has covered somethin over. [PJC]
THESAURUS
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, unrestrainednessROGET THESAURUS
overgrowth
Expansion
N expansion, increase of size, enlargement, extension, augmentation, amplification, ampliation, aggrandizement, spread, increment, growth, development, pullulation, swell, dilation, rarefaction, turgescence, turgidness, turgidity, dispansion, obesity, hydrocephalus, hydrophthalmus, dropsy, tumefaction, intumescence, swelling, tumor, diastole, distension, puffing, puffiness, inflation, pandiculation, dilatability, expansibility, germination, growth, upgrowth, accretion, budding, gemmation, overgrowth, overdistension, hypertrophy, tympany, bulb, plumper, superiority of size, big bang, Hubble constant, expanded larger, &c (large), swollen, expansive, wide open, wide spread, flabelliform, overgrown, exaggerated, bloated, fat, turgid, tumid, hypertrophied, dropsical, pot bellied, swag bellied, edematous, oedematous, obese, puffy, pursy, blowzy, bigswoln, distended, patulous, bulbous, full blown, full grown, full formed, big, abdominous, enchymatous, rhipidate, tumefacient, tumefying.
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