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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

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.

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

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

From The Chinese Fairy Book by Wilhelm, Richard

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

From The Market-Place by Frederic, Harold

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