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Definition: Overgrowth |
OvergrowthNoun1. Excessive size; usually caused by excessive secretion of growth hormone from the pituitary gland. 2. A profusion of growth on or over something else. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "overgrowth" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references) |
Synonyms: OvergrowthSynonyms: giantism (n), gigantism (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Expansion | Overgrowth, overdistension; hypertrophy, tympany. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Overgrowth |
| English words defined with "overgrowth": actinic keratosis ♦ black tongue ♦ furry tongue ♦ hairy tongue ♦ keratosis ♦ macrocephaly, megacephaly, megalocephaly. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "overgrowth": Bacterial Translocation, bacterial vaginosis ♦ Cicatrix, Hypertrophic ♦ Fibrocystic Disease of Breast ♦ Gingival Hypertrophy ♦ Holm theory ♦ peripheral blood lymphocyte therapy, Prostatic Hyperplasia, Proteus Syndrome ♦ Vaginosis. (references) |
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| "Thunderstorm" by Tjeerd Doosje Commentary: "After a heavy thunderstorm I shot this picture at the back of the storm itself. The sun was shining on the clouds and the electricity-poles. That gave a high contrast with the young and fresh overgrowth in the field." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The exact reason for this overgrowth is not known. (references) | |
Overgrowth of bone and cartilage often leads to arthritis. (references) | ||
A person has symptoms when overgrowth of Candida organisms occurs. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Overgrowth" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Overgrowth" is used about 92 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 92 | 34,282 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "overgrowth": Gingival Overgrowth. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
yeast overgrowth | 35 |
candida overgrowth | 17 |
bacterial overgrowth | 9 |
overgrowth symptom yeast | 5 |
gingival overgrowth | 3 |
overgrowth syndrome yeast | 2 |
albicans candida candidiasis overgrowth | 2 |
body in overgrowth yeast | 2 |
bacterium overgrowth | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "overgrowth"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | xhungë (boss, bulge, bump, excrescence, gall, gallnut, glandule, hump, hunch, knob, knur, knurr, lump, node, nub, protuberance, swelling, tuber, tubercle), tejrritje, rritje e jashtëzakonshme, gungë (boss, bump, gibbosity, hummock, hump, hunch, knob, knot, knur, knurl, knurr, node, nub, promontory, protuberance, swell, swelling, tuber, tubercle, tumefaction). (various references) | |
Arabic | كساء من عشب, نمو سريع, النمو السريع, إفراط في النمو. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | обрастване, ненормално бърз растеж, бърза растителност. (various references) | |
Chinese | 繁茂 (Rampant). (various references) | |
Czech | porost (growth, undergrowth), přerùstání, bujný rùst. (various references) | |
French | surdéveloppement, grande croissance, couverture par l'herbe. (various references) | |
German | lange Elle (overgrowth of ulna, relative overgrowth of ulna), Bakterienwucherung (bacterial overgrowth). (various references) | |
Greek | υπερβολική αύξηση, υπερανάπτυξη, ταχεία αύξηση. (various references) | |
Hebrew | גדול יתר (hypertrophy). (various references) | |
Hungarian | túlságos növekedés, túlnövés, bozót (boskage, brushwood, bush, cover, Frith, Holt, scrub, shrubbery, spinney, thicket, Tod, underbrush). (various references) | |
Italian | crescita eccessiva. (various references) | |
Korean | 무성. (various references) | |
Manx | coodagh (awning, case, coat, coating, cover, envelope, housing, shell, shielding, shroud, veil, wrapper), brat (apron, cloak, clot, coat, coating, cover, covering, curtain, film, layer, pall, pinafore, sheet, standing crop, wrap). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | overgrowthay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | superabundância (overage, overflow, redundance, redundancy, satiety, superfluity, surfeit, surplusage), exuberância (exuberance, exuberancy, lushness, lustiness, luxuriance, luxuriation, profusion). (various references) | |
Russian | разрастание (excrescence, vegetation), чрезмерный рост (rankness), гипертрофия (hypertrophy), нарост (excrescence, knag, knur, node, outgrowth, wart), беспорядочный рост. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | rastinje (vert). (various references) | |
Spanish | crecimiento excesivo. (various references) | |
Turkish | kaplama (casing, covering, cowl, encrustation, facing, fairing, incrustation, lining, overlap, overlay, plated, plating, revetment, sheath, sheathing, skin, veneering), fazla büyüme (outgrowth). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | розростання (accretion, excrescence), гіпертрофія (hypertrophy), надто швидкий ріст, зарості (brushwood). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự lớn quá khổ. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "overgrowth": overgrowths. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-h-o-o-r-r-t-v-w" | |
-1 letter: overthrow. | |
-2 letters: overgrow, regrowth. | |
-3 letters: groover, overhot, thrower. | |
-4 letters: groove, grower, growth, hooter, regrow, rhetor, rooter, throve, torero, trover. | |
-5 letters: ergot, grove, hover, ortho, other, overt, retro, roger, rotor, rover, rower, rowth, thoro, threw, throe, throw, tower, trove, voter, vower, whore, whort, wooer, worth, wrote, wroth. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-h-o-o-r-r-t-v-w" | |
+1 letter: overgrowths, overwrought. | |
+2 letters: overthrowing. | |
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