overgrowth

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun excessive size; usually caused by excessive secretion of growth hormone from the pituitary gland
noun a profusion of growth on or over something else

From over- + growth.

There was a pathetic look of draggledness, of want of means and care, rust and overgrowth and faded paint. — The best British short stories of 1922, Unknown
We have made our protest--we are daily making it--in the face of society, against the fictions and overgrowths which at the present time are excluding him more and more from human love. — Robert Elsmere, Humphry, Mrs. Ward
It dragged her at my heels even now, and when we had got half-way round--a devious, tiresome process, on ground much broken and by a path choked with overgrowth--I paused to give her breath. — The Two Magics: The Turn of the Screw, Covering End, Henry James

giantism, gigantism

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