Usually means: Excessively covered with large plants.
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  1. overgrown: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. overgrown: Merriam-Webster
  3. overgrown: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. overgrown: Collins English Dictionary
  5. overgrown: Vocabulary.com
  6. Overgrown, overgrown: Wordnik
  7. overgrown: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. overgrown: Wiktionary
  9. overgrown: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. Overgrown, overgrown: Dictionary.com
  11. overgrown: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. overgrown: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Overgrown: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Overgrown: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. overgrown: Rhymezone
  16. overgrown: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. overgrown: FreeDictionary.org
  18. overgrown: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. overgrown: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. overgrown: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. overgrown: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. overgrown: Medical dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Having large numbers of plants which have become too big, and are hence spoiling the picturesqueness of a garden.
▸ adjective:  (attributive, mildly derogatory) Having grown bigger without developing maturity or changing character.

Similar:
covered, wooded, weedgrown, grown, overdeveloped, overgrassed, overinhabited, overbuilt, pot-bound, overdimensioned, more...

Opposite:
trim, prune, groom

Types:
jungle, forest, rainforest, taiga, grassland, desert, tundra, prairie, savannah, more...

Phrases:
overgrown claw, overgrown horn, On an Overgrown Path, overgrown garden, overgrown plants, more...

Adjectives:
little, more, present, densely, great, old, few, top, thick, big

Colors:
    olive,     forest green,     moss green,     fern green,     sage, more...


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Similar:
covered, wooded, weedgrown, grown, overdeveloped, overgrassed, overinhabited, overbuilt, pot-bound, overdimensioned, more...

Opposite:
trim, prune, groom

Types:
jungle, forest, rainforest, taiga, grassland, desert, tundra, prairie, savannah, more...

Phrases:
overgrown claw, overgrown horn, On an Overgrown Path, overgrown garden, overgrown plants, a place overgrown with bushes, overgrown vegetation choked, overgrown unruly vegetation, overgrown gone, more...

Adjectives:
little, more, present, densely, great, old, few, top, thick, big

Colors:
    olive,     forest green,     moss green,     fern green,     sage, more...



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