overgrowth

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(ō'vər-grōth') pronunciation
n.
A usually abundant, luxuriant growth over or on something else: an overgrowth of ivy on the old house.


  1. excessive growth; hyperplasia.
  2. a later but more vigorous growth by another strain or species of organism that supplants one already existing.

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