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high-growing

ADJECTIVE

rank

Synonyms

STRONG

extreme flourishing grown lavish lush overgrown rich wild

WEAK

coarse dense excessive exuberant fertile fructiferous junglelike luxuriant overabundant productive profuse prolific rampant semitropical tropical vigorous

Antonyms

STRONG

mild moderate

WEAK

aromatic clean indefinite moral perfumed rare scarce sparse sweet

Example Sentences

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An upright posture also explains the sthenurines’ forepaws, which appear better suited for browsing on high-growing plants.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 15, 2014

Summer had begun, and the time for sowing the high-growing millet had come.

From The Chinese Fairy Book by Wilhelm, Richard

The high-growing Star of Bethlehem is a pretty thing.

From Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth by Earle, Alice Morse

His face, shrouded in a high-growing, dust-coloured beard, invited no attention.

From The Market-Place by Frederic, Harold

We skirted the grounds and entered by a rear gate a garden where were all sorts of low-growing trees and high-growing shrubs to screen us as we drew near the rear veranda.

From Wide Courses by Connolly, James B. (James Brendan)

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