Chiefly of vegetation: vigorous or luxuriant in growth. In later use usually in negative sense: growing too luxuriantly or rampantly; thick and…

Of grass, hay, etc.: coarse, rough; overgrown, rank.

Of a shoot or stalk: Thick, bulky. Now only (exc. dialect) with notion of abnormal growth: Luxuriant, rank.

Too luxurious; excessively abundant or copious; (of a plant) too vigorous in growth, too luxuriant. Also, of land or soil: too fertile, liable to…

= rowty, adj. Cf. rowet, n.

Exhibiting excessive growth; unduly large or advanced. Obsolete.