high-growing
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
She peeped over the high-growing root between them.
From Stanford Stories Tales of a Young University by Field, Charles K. (Charles Kellogg)
The answer to this question involves the hypothesis I would advance as accounting for the bright colours of high-growing individuals.
From The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays by Joly, John
Having reached the top we walked along a gulch, where I took two photographs, and from there got on to a moor which was covered with high-growing ferns, making walking difficult.
From Three Years in Tristan da Cunha by Barrow, Katherine Mary
The vines have to be sought out in the forest, cut down and disentangled from the high-growing branches, divided into lengths, and carried home.
From The Crime of the Congo by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
