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Having a thick stem.

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  • It was covered with creeper and thick-stemmed ivy.
  • Just as you look on the numberless masts of ships and the thick-stemmed pipes of steamboats, I looked.
  • Most of the trees reach 30 meters or more and carry thick-stemmed lianas and woody and herbaceous epiphytes.
  • Spines set in a tuft of white hairs, falling off from the lowest mammae, as happens in many of the thick-stemmed kinds.
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