Sentence examples for overgrowth from inspiring English sources
The word "overgrowth" is correct in written English
It is used to describe excessive growth of plants or vegetation in a particular area. Example: "The garden was filled with overgrowth, making it difficult to see the path."
noun
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.
Only when masses of laurel and other overgrowth had been cleared was it possible to see the sinuous line of the man-made earth banks that anchored the design that was made in the 1850s.The Wirtzs have used these as the starting-point for their own scheme.
Another malignant disease, probably related to the above conditions, is multiple myeloma, which is characterized by a malignant overgrowth of plasma cells within the bone marrow.
Simple benign hyperplasia (overgrowth) of the epidermis such as is commonly seen in infantile eczema often appears as lichenification, a term used to describe a thickening of the epidermis in which the normal surface markings of the skin are greatly exaggerated.
Although saliva is not essential to life, its absence results in a number of inconveniences, including dryness of the oral mucous membrane, poor oral hygiene because of bacterial overgrowth, a greatly diminished sense of taste, and difficulties with speech.
The gastrula may form by invagination (infolding of cells), epiboly (overgrowth and lengthening), or by both processes.
In dark-skinned people, overgrowth of scar tissue from any skin incision or injury can cause a thickened elevation on the scar called a keloid.
That early period of overgrowth is followed by a period of slowed or average growth, resulting in a normal or slightly larger brain volume in older children with autism.
In some cases, overgrowth is present as early as one to two months following birth.
The overgrowth of bacteria also upsets the motor activity of the small intestine.
For example, many ponds take on an opaque shade of green as a result of overgrowths of cyanobacteria, and blooms of phycoerythrin-rich species cause the occasional red colour of the Red Sea.
In microscopic section the clastic structure of some quartzites is well preserved; the rounded sand grains are seen with quartz overgrowths deposited in crystalline continuity, so that optical properties of the grains are similar to those of the material surrounding them.
