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.

She peeped over the high-growing root between them.

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

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)