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noun
A usually abundant, luxuriant growth over or on something else.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
An excessive growth or increase in numbers, as in a population of weeds or microbes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Excessive size; usually caused by over-production of growth hormone from the pituitary gland.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
a profusion of growth on or over something else
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: profusion, profuseness, richness, cornucopia
noun
excessive size; usually caused by excessive secretion of growth hormone from the pituitary gland
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: giantism, gigantism
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Broader terms: hypertrophy
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- English growth English overgrowth From over- + growth.
