Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon

A.make to grow, produce on or besides, Thphr.HP1.9.3.

II. Pass., with aor. 2 and pf. Act., ἐπέφυ_ν, ἐπιπέφυκα:—grow upon, [τῷ σήματι] “ἐπιπέφυκε ἐλαίη” Hdt.4.34; esp. as an excrescence, Arist.HA605a3 ; “ταῖς ψυχαῖς ἐ. μελανίαι” Plb.1.81.7; ὁ ἐπιπεφυκώς, with or without ὑμήν, the conjunctiva, Gal.7.101, Steph.in Hp.1.88 D.: hence, adhere, cling closely to (cf. ἐμφύω), ἀμφοῖν τοῖν χεροῖν with both hands, Plb.12.10.6, cf. D.S.36.15 ; esp. of dogs, ἐ. τοῖς θηρίοις stick close to them, run them hard, Plu.Luc.1: metaph., “τοῖς πλείστοις..οἷον κῆρες ἐπιπεφύκασιν” Pl.Lg.937d, cf. Ph.1.345 ; cleave to, ἀγαθοῖς interpol. in Plu.2.6c ; attack, τινι Id.Pomp.51 ; δόγματι, opp. ὑπερδικεῖν, Id.2.694e, cf. Jul. Or.2.86b ; ἐπιφύντα νέον ἄνδρα an upstart interloper, Plu.Cleom.16.