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
His face, shrouded in a high-growing, dust-coloured beard, invited no attention.
From The Market-Place by Frederic, Harold
Summer had begun, and the time for sowing the high-growing millet had come.
From The Chinese Fairy Book by Wilhelm, Richard
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
Far away across this gleaming floor blossomed a long line of high-growing lotus flowers, white and yellow against a silver sky.
From It Happened in Egypt by Williamson, C. N. (Charles Norris)
