1.
[syn: giantism, gigantism, overgrowth]
2. a profusion of growth on or over something else;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
overgrowth \o"ver*growth`\, n.
1. Excessive growth.
[1913 Webster]
2. A growth that has covered somethin over.
[PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
overgrowth
n 1: excessive size; usually caused by excessive secretion of
growth hormone from the pituitary gland [syn: giantism,
gigantism, overgrowth]
2: a profusion of growth on or over something else
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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