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overgrowth

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overgrowth [′ō·vər‚grōth]
(crystallography)
A crystal growth in optical and crystallographic continuity around another crystal of different composition.
(mineralogy)
A mineral deposited on and growing in oriented, crystallographic directions on the surface of another mineral.


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And even when recognised at last, their immense magnitude renders it very hard really to believe that such bulky masses of overgrowth can possibly be instinct, in all parts, with the same sort of life that lives in a dog or a horse.
The fortune in being the first, in an invention or in a privilege, doth cause sometimes a wonderful overgrowth in riches; as it was with the first sugar man, in the Canaries.
On every side of me stretched a bleak and desolate expanse of plain, covered with a tall overgrowth of sere grass, which rustled and whistled in the autumn wind with heaven knows what mysterious and disquieting suggestion.
 
 
 
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