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Definition of Overgrowing
1. overgrow [v] - See also: overgrow
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overgrowing
Literary usage of Overgrowing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of Plant Diseases by Paul Sorauer, Gustav Lindau, Ludwig Reh, Frances Dorrance (1922)
"overgrowing frost split in apple branch, produced by artificial cold. a. CANKER OF
THE APPLE TREE. The canker of the apple tree occurs in two forms, ..."
2. Alpine Flowers for Gardens: Rock, Wall, Marsh Plants, and Mountain Shrubs by William Robinson (1910)
"... and nothing ever droops or dies, the only difficulty being to prevent the
stronger plants from overgrowing and eventually destroying the weaker ones. ..."
3. The Growth of the Idylls of the King by Richard Jones (1895)
"... and up a slope of garden, all Of roses white and red, and white ones mixt And
overgrowing them, went on, and found, ‘94. Then he crost the court, ..."
4. The Micrographic Dictionary: A Guide to the Examination and Investigation of by John William Griffith, Arthur Henfrey (1875)
"The crusta- ceous kinds overgrowing stones have this filamentous medullary layer
very solid ; and in some of them its lowest filaments are seen growing out ..."
5. Lectures on surgical pathology by James Paget (1865)
"It is, therefore, not enough to think of them as hypertrophies or overgrowths:
they must be considered as parts overgrowing, and as overgrowing with ..."
6. Shade-trees in Towns and Cities: Their Selection, Planting, and Care as by William Solotaroff (1911)
"The callus overgrowing the end of a severed branch never coalesces with the old
wood. It simply seals up the remaining stub of the branch, which becomes ..."
7. Shade-trees in Towns and Cities: Their Selection, Planting, and Care as by William Solotaroff (1911)
"While the callus tissue is in the process of overgrowing the wounded surface,
... When the margins of the overgrowing callus tissue meet, ..."
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