It was covered with creeper and thick-stemmed ivy. From Wordnik.com. [Five Fall Into Adventure]
Just as you look on the numberless masts of ships and the thick-stemmed pipes of steamboats, I looked. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks At Millennium Lecture Series] Reference
Most of the trees reach 30 meters or more and carry thick-stemmed lianas and woody and herbaceous epiphytes. From Wordnik.com. [Halmahera rain forests] Reference
Spines set in a tuft of white hairs, falling off from the lowest mammae, as happens in many of the thick-stemmed kinds. From Wordnik.com. [Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation] Reference
With a smile he selected a thick-stemmed tree and, with the aid of willing and suddenly excited hands, lifted himself to the lower boughs. From Wordnik.com. [The Return of Blue Pete] Reference
In old-growth forests, the larger trees grow to more than 30 meters (m) in height and tend to be covered with thick-stemmed lianas and other piphytes. From Wordnik.com. [Buru rain forests] Reference
•Small saplings and thick-stemmed brush, such as autumn olives, attract all sizes of bucks that like to fight with the flexible brush and thrash it to a pulp. From Wordnik.com. [Read Rubs to Kill More Trophy Whitetail Bucks] Reference
Through thick-stemmed woodlands rough and wide, 120. From Wordnik.com. [Woodnotes] Reference
At the far side she sank down beside a thick-stemmed cactus. From Wordnik.com. [Bloom of Cactus] Reference
Perfect for slow-growing roses that emerge as long, thick-stemmed, big-budded beauties. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Just as you look on the numberless masts of ships, and the thick-stemmed pipes of steamboats, I looked. From Wordnik.com. [Poems By Walt Whitman] Reference
Isabelle to dispense with the electric light -- and bunches of heavy, thick-stemmed roses filled the vases. From Wordnik.com. [Together] Reference
He walked on to the northern end of the garden, where a few thick-stemmed pear trees were trained against the wall. From Wordnik.com. [The Slave of the Lamp] Reference
I had not forgotten the way I had escaped the previous day, and glancing round, I saw a thick-stemmed tree directly behind me. From Wordnik.com. [In the Wilds of Africa] Reference
With a bulb the size of a softball, the thick-stemmed flower now standing about 6 feet tall is still five years away from blooming. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicle-Telegram] Reference
Ardelia bent over again, tugged at a thick-stemmed clover, brought it up by the roots, and laid it awkwardly on the young lady's lap. From Wordnik.com. [The Speaker, No. 5: Volume II, Issue 1 December, 1906.] Reference
They did so -- when suddenly they drew back, and we saw before us, on the side of an open glade, under a thick-stemmed tree, a rude hut, and just before it, on the ground, two men, wretched, haggard creatures. From Wordnik.com. [Peter Biddulph The Story of an Australian Settler] Reference
The end of the veranda, where Mrs Gildea had established herself with her type-writer and paraphernalia of literary work, was screened by a thick-stemmed grape-vine, which made a dapple of shadow and sunshine upon the boarded floor. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land] Reference
The game trail down which he walked had become by ages of use a deep, narrow trench, its walls topped on either side by impenetrable thicket and dense-growing trees closely interwoven with thick-stemmed creepers and lesser vines inextricably matted into two solid ramparts of vegetation. From Wordnik.com. [Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar] Reference
Cacti are thick-stemmed, generally spiny, mostly leafless plants unique to the Americas, and Mexico is the world’s center of cactus diversity. From Wordnik.com. [Nopales, tunas and pitayas] Reference
Rather dwarf, but thick-stemmed. From Wordnik.com. [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference
The thick-stemmed Boletus, B. pachypus. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners] Reference
Through thick-stemmed woodlands rough and wide. From Wordnik.com. [Graded Poetry: Seventh Year] Reference
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