OVERPOPULATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does overpopulation mean? 

• OVERPOPULATION (noun)
  The noun OVERPOPULATION has 1 sense:

1. too much population

  Familiarity information: OVERPOPULATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OVERPOPULATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Too much population

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("overpopulation" is a kind of...):

population (a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area)

Derivation:

overpopulate (cause to have too great a population)

 Context examples 

Then a crash followed, offering a warning sign to the modern world about the dangers of overpopulation.

(Scientists chart a baby boom in southwestern Native Americans from 500 to 1300 A.D., NSF)