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overgrowth

overgrowth noun: a usually abundant, luxuriant growth over or on something else.

Noun

overgrowth (countable and uncountable, plural overgrowths)

  1. A usually abundant, luxuriant growth over or on something else.
    1. A tangle of growth occurring at the top of trees involving vines and branches, common in jungles.
      • In desolate places where dank moisture breeds / The pipy Hemlock to strange overgrowth1818, John Keats, “Book I”, in Endymion: A Poetic Romance, London: […] T[homas] Miller, […] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 14, line 241
  2. An excessive growth or increase in numbers, as in a population of weeds or microbes.
  3. Excessive size; usually caused by over-production of growth hormone from the pituitary gland.

overgrowth meaning in Tamil and Kannada

overgrowth in Tamil

மிகை வளர்ச்சி

overgrowth in Kannada

ಮಲೆತ, ಮೇಲುಬೆಳೆತ

Synonyms of overgrowth

Antonyms

Forms of overgrowth

pluralovergrowths

Origin of overgrowth

From over- + growth.

Questions about overgrowth

What does overgrowth mean?
Overgrowth means a usually abundant, luxuriant growth over or on something else.
What is overgrowth in Tamil?
Overgrowth in Tamil is மிகை வளர்ச்சி. See Overgrowth meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is overgrowth?
Overgrowth is a noun.
What is the plural of overgrowth?
The plural of overgrowth is overgrowths.

Words near overgrowth in the dictionary

  1. overgrow
  2. overgrowing
  3. overgrown
  4. overgrownness
  5. overgrows
  6. overgrowth
  7. overgrowths
  8. overguarantee
  9. overguaranteed
  10. overguaranteeing
  11. overguarantees

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overgrowth (page history and authors); overgrowth (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); overgrowth (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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