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ˈovergrowth
[over- 29, 8.]
1. Excessive or too rapid growth, growth beyond the normal amount; also, the result of this, over-luxuriance or abundance.
1602Shakes. Ham. i. iv. 27 So, oft it chances in particular men,..By the o'ergrowth of some complexion. 1667Milton P.L. xii. 166 A sequent King, who seeks To stop thir overgrowth, as inmate guests Too numerous. 1862Merivale Rom. Emp. (1865) V. xl. 43 The Forum and other public places were deliberately thinned of their overgrowths of sculpture. 1885Law Times LXXIX. 187/2 To trim the roadside hedges and prevent their overgrowth.
2. A growth over or upon something; an accretion.
1879Jrnl. Chem. Soc. XXXVI. 769 Those substances only should be considered as isomorphous which are capable of forming mixed crystals or which are capable of forming ‘overgrowths’ (Ueberwachsen), i.e., when a crystal of the one is suspended in a solution of the other, the crystal increases in size, owing to the deposition on it of the substance in solution. 1883H. Drummond Nat. Law in Spir. W. Pref. (ed. 2) 19 The monstrous overgrowths which conceal the real lines of truth. 1893Liddon, etc. Life Pusey I. xvi. 361 To separate original Christianity..from the over-growth of later ages. 1896G. B. Shaw Let. 14 Jan. (1965) I. 586 Those auburn tresses..concealed a grey—nay, a white—undergrowth, which is now an overgrowth. 1940Glasstone Text-bk. Physical Chem. (1941) v. 342 Many instances of the production of overgrowths, e.g.,..alums, monoclinic double sulfates, etc., are known. 1971I. G. Gass et al. Understanding Earth xiii. 170/2 Silica can be deposited as overgrowths around detrital quartz grains. |