(of a tree or forest) that has ceased to grow or has no more commercial value
2.
ageing or deteriorating
Examples of 'overmature' in a sentence
overmature
The porosity of shale decreases generally with increasing maturity in the overmature stage.
Feiyu WANG, Jing GUAN, Weiping FENG, Linyan BAO 2013, 'Evolution of overmature marine shale porosity and implication to the free gas volume',Petroleum Exploration and Developmenthttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1876380413601111. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
187.8% of this increase would be offset by premature, mature, and overmature forests.
Chunhua Zhang, Weimin Ju, Jingming Chen, Meihong Fang, Mengquan Wu, Xueli Chang, TaoWang, Xiqun Wang 2018, 'Sustained Biomass Carbon Sequestration by China's Forests from 2010 to 2050', Forestshttps://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/9/11/689. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Until recently, the characteristics of nano-microscale structures in the naturally deformed, overmature, marine shales were poorly known.
Hongjian Zhu, Yiwen Ju, Cheng Huang, Yu Qi, Liting Ju, Kun Yu, Wuyang Li, Xin Su,Hongye Feng, Peng Qiao 2019, 'Tectonic and Thermal Controls on the Nano-Micro Structural Characteristic in a CambrianOrganic-Rich Shale', Mineralshttps://www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/9/6/354. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)