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
We walked on together through the high-growing corn which made even dimmer the fading twilight.
From The Joy of Captain Ribot by Armando Palacio Vald?s
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 John D. Sedding
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 James B. (James Brendan) Connolly
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 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
