high-growing

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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

"Have you got a dollar?" asked Tripp, with his most fawning look and his dog-like eyes that blinked in the narrow space between his high-growing matted beard and his low-growing matted hair.

From Options by Henry, O.

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

She peeped over the high-growing root between them.

From Stanford Stories Tales of a Young University by Field, Charles K. (Charles Kellogg)

There is little wood in the country, for the heavy winds are calculated to destroy high-growing trees, and the roots cannot penetrate into the ground to any depth, without coming to water.

From Garden-Craft Old and New by Sedding, John D.