Usually means: Excessive growth beyond normal limits.
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  1. overgrowth: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. overgrowth: Merriam-Webster
  3. overgrowth: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. overgrowth: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. overgrowth: Collins English Dictionary
  6. overgrowth: Vocabulary.com
  7. Overgrowth, overgrowth: Wordnik
  8. overgrowth: Wiktionary
  9. overgrowth: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. overgrowth: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. overgrowth: Dictionary.com
  12. Overgrowth (video game), Overgrowth: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Overgrowth: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. overgrowth: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. overgrowth: Rhymezone
  16. Overgrowth: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. overgrowth: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. overgrowth: FreeDictionary.org
  19. overgrowth: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. overgrowth: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. overgrowth: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overgrowth: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. overgrowth: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Overgrowth: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  4. overgrowth: Medical dictionary
  5. Overgrowth: Drug Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A usually abundant, luxuriant growth over or on something else.
noun:  A tangle of growth occurring at the top of trees involving vines and branches, common in jungles.
noun:  An excessive growth or increase in numbers, as in a population of weeds or microbes.
noun:  Excessive size; usually caused by over-production of growth hormone from the pituitary gland.

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