as in lush
covered with a thick, healthy natural growth
the trail has become so overgrown that it is nearly impassable in spots
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Recent Examples of overgrown
Additionally, if the plant grows well but becomes overgrown, consider cutting it back.
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Rebecca Jones, Southern Living, 4 Dec. 2024
Her small, walled-in back garden was lush with overgrown ferns and an apple tree.
—Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
Staff and volunteers routinely remove overgrown sand pines to create bare sand areas with low-growing vegetation preferred by scrub jays.
—Joe Rassel, Orlando Sentinel, 27 Nov. 2024
But the latest tech draws on artificial intelligence to do much more: thin overgrown fields, monitor plants for diseases, target herbicide needs with cameras.
—Shaun McKinnon, The Arizona Republic, 14 Oct. 2024
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Rebecca Jones, Southern Living, 4 Dec. 2024
Her small, walled-in back garden was lush with overgrown ferns and an apple tree.
—Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
Staff and volunteers routinely remove overgrown sand pines to create bare sand areas with low-growing vegetation preferred by scrub jays.
—Joe Rassel, Orlando Sentinel, 27 Nov. 2024
But the latest tech draws on artificial intelligence to do much more: thin overgrown fields, monitor plants for diseases, target herbicide needs with cameras.
—Shaun McKinnon, The Arizona Republic, 14 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overgrown
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Explore Palm Beach 13 of 18 Leu Gardens Orlando Far from the theme parks and the city traffic is a lush, tropical wonderland.Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 16 Jan. 2025
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Swiss cheese vine’s length and dramatic foliage bring lush maximalism to any room.Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Jan. 2025
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Littler began playing darts as a tiny boy and soon started beating grown men at the game.Caroline Frost, Deadline, 4 Jan. 2025
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Expand All In March 2012, a mother came to the Key Biscayne Police Department with her 14-year-old daughter, who had been sent steamy love letters from a grown man — Oscar Olea, her 26-year-old gymnastics coach.Ana Claudia Chacin, Miami Herald, 2 Jan. 2025
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For example, previous mockups using the colors red, yellow and green to call out different levels did not make a statistically significant difference in helping people interpret the box.Alexander Tin, CBS News, 14 Jan. 2025
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Each group is coded by a color to indicate difficulty: yellow for the easiest, followed by green, blue, and purple for more challenging sets.John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 14 Jan. 2025
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Granted much of that California acreage is uninhabited forest as distinct from a dense, mostly wooden city filled with new immigrants, but that’s still eight times the size, a bigger area than than occupied by Manhattan.The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 12 Jan. 2025
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There’s also the simple fact that much of the densest forest is on terrain so steep that loggers’ machines couldn’t even access it.Elizabeth Miller, Outside Online, 12 Jan. 2025
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Swap out the kale for Swiss chard, spinach, collards, or your favorite leafy greens.Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 10 Jan. 2025
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Other foods commonly involved in norovirus outbreaks are leafy greens, fresh fruit, and other shellfish (such as clams, geoducks, mussels, and scallops).Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 8 Jan. 2025
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“Overgrown.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overgrown. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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