overgrowth

overgrowth
    n 1: excessive size; usually caused by excessive secretion of
         growth hormone from the pituitary gland [syn: {giantism},
         {gigantism}, {overgrowth}]
    2: a profusion of growth on or over something else
    

overgrowth \o"ver*growth`\, n.
   1. Excessive growth.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. A growth that has covered somethin over.
      [PJC]
    

56 Moby Thesaurus words for "overgrowth":
      abandon, boundlessness, egregiousness, enormousness, exaggeration,
      excess, excessiveness, exorbitance, exorbitancy, extravagance,
      extravagancy, extreme, extremes, extremism, extremity,
      fabulousness, giantism, gigantism, gluttony, hyperbole,
      hypertrophy, immoderacy, immoderateness, immoderation,
      incontinence, inordinacy, inordinance, inordinateness,
      intemperance, intemperateness, inundation, monstrousness, nimiety,
      outrageousness, outsize, overdevelopment, overflowing,
      overgreatness, overindulgence, overlargeness, overmuch,
      overmuchness, overpass, overrun, overrunning, overspreading,
      overweight, radicalism, superiority, surplus, too much,
      too-muchness, unconscionableness, undueness, unreasonableness,
      unrestrainedness