2. Adjective. Surmounting, surpassing. ¹
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Definition of Overtopping
1. overtop [v] - See also: overtop
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overtopping
Literary usage of Overtopping
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"Low : Ivs. lanceolate, hairy, usually overtopping the spikes : fls. lilac or red.
long-tubed, the segments oblong and unequal. BM 576. disticha. Ker. ..."
2. Mores Catholici: Or, Ages of Faith by Kenelm Henry Digby (1894)
"... been anticipated in the Christian world's young prime, in height overtopping
the woods, and scarce seeming a work of human art, but as it were Titantic. ..."
3. The Student's Flora of the British Islands by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1884)
"Ltam (bit, £ in. broad anil upward«, sheath-edges filamentous. Brad broad,
overtopping the stem. ..."
4. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany by William Jackson Hooker (1850)
"everywhere mingled with it, and overtopping the blades are two small herbaceous
species of ... overtopping ..."
5. A Manual Flora of Madeira and the Adjacent Island of Porto Santo and the by Richard Thomas Lowe (1868)
"Pods linear slender scarcely an inch long, half a line wide, the upper considerably
overtopping the fl. Tribe II. ..."
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