superabundance

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an excessively large quantity; an overflowing plenty

   The orchard yielded a superabundance of apples that autumn.

From Late Latin superabundantia ('overflowing plenty'), from superabundare ('to overflow'), from super- ('over, above') + abundare ('to overflow'), from ab- + undare ('to surge'), from unda ('wave').

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