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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: covered with growing plants
2: abounding in usually unwanted vegetation

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1603 grown abnormally or excessively large <dismissed him as an overgrown adolescent>

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Overgrow O`ver*grow", v. t. [imp. Overgrew; p. p. Overgrown; p. pr. & vb. n. Overgrowing.] 1. To grow over; to cover with growth or herbage, esp. that which is rank. The green . . . is rough and overgrown. --Sir W. Scott. 2. To grow beyond; to rise above; hence, to overcome; to oppress. [Obs.] --Mortimer. ``O'ergrown with labor.'' --Beau. & Fl. [Usually in the past participle.]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. If a garden or other place is overgrown, it is covered with a lot of untidy plants because it has not been looked after. We hurried on until we reached a courtyard overgrown with weeds... ADJ 2. If you describe an adult as an overgrown child, you mean that their behaviour and attitudes are like those of a child, and that you dislike this. ...a bunch of overgrown kids... ADJ: ADJ n [disapproval]

Moby Thesaurus

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