overgrassed

English

Etymology

over- +‎ grassed

Adjective

overgrassed (comparative more overgrassed, superlative most overgrassed)

1. overgrown, or covered over, with grass.
   • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC; reprinted as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, The Shepheardes Calender […], London: John C. Nimmo, […], 1890, →OCLC:

     For they be like foul quagmires overgrass'd

   • 2012, Paul L. Hedren, After Custer:

     A land that had been overgrassed and undergrazed had been put to a higher use

Related terms

• overgrassing

References

• “overgrassed”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.