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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

This is better than high-growing shelter trees or evergreens.

From The Apple by Various

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)

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

The high-growing Star of Bethlehem is a pretty thing.

From Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth by Earle, Alice Morse

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