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What does overgrowth mean?

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  1. A usually abundant, luxuriant growth over or on something else. A tangle of growth occurring at the top of trees involving vines and branches, common in jungles.
  2. An excessive growth or increase in numbers, as in a population of weeds or microbes.
  3. Excessive size; usually caused by over-production of growth hormone from the pituitary gland.
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Pathways that were closed for around 100 years due to overgrowth have been re-opened.
With such visible history, the sun-blackened ruins poking out from the undergrowth and overgrowth, Nevis is fun to explore.
In addition to osteophytic overgrowth, the ligamentum flavum may stiffen and buckle into the spinal cord dorsally.
It is well cemented with early iron oxide, quartz overgrowth and clay cements with some dolomite blocking pore throats.
Most of the large crystals have glassy terminations formed by an overgrowth of a thin layer of clear quartz.
Many of these calcite crystals and crystal groups are partially or completely covered with an overgrowth of pyrite.

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