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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
overgrowth
noun
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■ ADJECTIVE
bacterial
▪ Erythromycin prevents bacterial overgrowth in the gut etc. during transport.
▪ Faecal bile acid loss in cystic fibrosis is unrelated to the presence of intraluminal fat or intestinal bacterial overgrowth.
▪ Importantly, prophylaxis against stress ulcers with H 2 antagonists and antacids has been implicated in abnormal bacterial overgrowth in the stomach.
▪ Furthermore, the interpretation of the SeHCAT test may be influenced by the presence of bacterial overgrowth in the small intestine.
▪ Each group and subgroup consisted ot 10 rats. Bacterial overgrowth rats were prepared in the same way as described previously.
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▪ Bacterial overgrowth rats were prepared in the same way as described previously.
▪ Erythromycin prevents bacterial overgrowth in the gut etc. during transport.
▪ Faecal bile acid loss in cystic fibrosis is unrelated to the presence of intraluminal fat or intestinal bacterial overgrowth.
▪ Importantly, prophylaxis against stress ulcers with H 2 antagonists and antacids has been implicated in abnormal bacterial overgrowth in the stomach.
▪ The drift had become a tunnel of overgrowth that dripped water on to the roof of the van.
▪ The timing of the development of quartz overgrowth cements is more variable.
▪ This will reveal any overgrowth of the claws, which will have to be trimmed back.
▪ Underwater wrecks are strewn along the coast and downed planes and tanks emerge from the jungle overgrowth.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
overgrowth

overgrowth \o"ver*growth`\, n.

  1. Excessive growth.

  2. A growth that has covered somethin over.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
overgrowth

c.1600, from over- + growth. Also see overgrown.\n

Wiktionary
overgrowth

n. 1 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. 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.

WordNet
overgrowth

  1. n. excessive size; usually caused by excessive secretion of growth hormone from the pituitary gland [syn: giantism, gigantism]

  2. a profusion of growth on or over something else

Wikipedia
Overgrowth (video game)

Overgrowth is an upcoming action video game under development by Wolfire Games. It was announced on September 17, 2008 for Windows, OS X and Linux.

The game plays as a 3D third-person action game, set in a pre-industrial world of anthropomorphic fighter rabbits, wolves, dogs, cats and rats. The game is designed by David Rosen.

Usage examples of "overgrowth".

Combined with dense overgrowth, its inaccessibility had kept it hidden from the outside world for the last five hundred years.

Park also calls attention to the difference between acquired gigantism, particularly of the finger and toes, and another condition of congenital gigantism, in which either after or before birth there is a relatively disproportionate, sometimes enormous, overgrowth of perhaps one finger or two, perhaps of a limited portion of a hand or foot, or possibly of a part of one of the limbs.

About ten yards away, Spock rose from the overgrowth, dragging McCoy to his feet.

Kirk dug his fingers into the stubby overgrowth, took each step one at a time.

Through the overgrowth of roses, she could barely make out the enamel plaque beside the door: AVALON COTTAGE.

Slowly but smoothly he began to slice at the overgrowth, striking it back with clean cuts.

The Palace is situated in an obscure corner of Rome, near the quarter of the Jews, and from the upper windows you see the immense ruins of Mount Palatine half hidden under their profuse overgrowth of trees.

The house was a two-story wood-framed structure obscured by an overgrowth of wisteria and myrtle.

A tropical scene, luxuriant with tangled overgrowth and impressive in the grandeur of its phenomena, may more decisively arrest our attention than an English landscape with its green corn lands and plenteous homesteads.

And even when recognized at last, their immense magnitude renders it very hard really to believe that such bulky masses of overgrowth can possibly be instinct, in all parts, with the same sort of life that lives in a dog or a horse.

Like an archaeologist digging for clues to a lost people, Max was determined to scrape away the overgrowth of years and find out who he was and where he had come from.

And at night, under the equatorial overgrowth and heat-holding cloud cover, you hear the ragged parrot-hoot and monkeysqueak of the sirens, and then fires flower to ward off monsters.

Hard to tell where the overgrowths ended and the instrumentation began.

Natural overgrowths they lop, Yet from nature neither swerves, Trained or savage: for this cause: Of our Earth they ply the laws, Have in Earth their feeding root, Mind of man and bent of brute.

These structures were clothed and foliated with dense, decorative overgrowths of smaller and more colorful, more vegetation-like versions of the plant.