Sentence example with the word 'overgrowth'

overgrowth

abandon, excess, extravagancy, fabulousness, hypertrophy, inordinacy, inundation, overdevelopment, overmuch, overspreading, too much, unrestrainedness

Definition n. excessive size

Last update: June 13, 2015


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The overgrowth of bushes obstruct the view.   [Please select]

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Roots are often flattened, twisted and otherwise distorted by mechanical obstacles; stems by excess of food in rich soils, the attacks of minute parasites, overgrowth by climbing plants, &c. Leaves are especially apt to vary, and although the formation of crests, pitchers, puckers, &c., must be put down to the results of abnormal development, it is often difficult to draw the line between teratological and merely varietal phenomena.   [Please select]

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Measurements or clear descriptions of these remains are not possible, owing to overgrowth.   [Please select]

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I shall bring you close to dangerous abysses, hidden carefully beneath a thick overgrowth of pleasant but deceiving romance.   [Please select]

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Deformities in the feet of cattle usually consist in overgrowth of horn, generally from want of wear in animals which are stabled.   [Please select]

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In most cases of monstrosity by excess of overgrowth it becomes necessary to cut off the supernumerary or overdeveloped parts, and the same general principles must be followed as laid down in "Embryotomy" (p.)   [Please select]

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It is difficult now to determine the precise distances, as the overgrowth of wood and jungle has obliterated all lines left by the original level of the lake at its junction with the forest.   [Please select]

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