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What is the adjective for overgrowth?

What's the adjective for overgrowth? Here's the word you're looking for.

Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb overgrow which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

overgrown
  1. Having large numbers of plants which have become too big, and are hence spoiling the picturesqueness of a garden.
  2. (attributive) Having grown bigger without developing maturity or changing character.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “In the past, there have been even bigger mammals, such as giant ground-sloths and Titanotherium, a beast like an overgrown elephant and the largest land mammal ever.”
      “It is hard work because it is like hacking your way through an overgrown jungle path with a machete.”
      “If you have a bed that is overgrown with weeds, it's okay to till it under and start again.”
overgrassed
  1. (obsolete) Overstocked, or overgrown, or covered, with grass.
overgrowing
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