overproliferate

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English

Etymology

From over- +‎ proliferate.

Verb

overproliferate (third-person singular simple present overproliferates, present participle overproliferating, simple past and past participle overproliferated)

  1. To proliferate excessively.
    • 2015 July 25, “BTB-Zinc Finger Oncogenes Are Required for Ras and Notch-Driven Tumorigenesis in Drosophila”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
      The Ras and Notch-driven epithelial tumors develop in the eye-antennal imaginal disc which is not thought to contain epithelial stem cells, however, the eye disc does contain progenitor cells that can also overproliferate in response to excessive STAT activity.