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Low-growing   /loʊ-grˈoʊɪŋ/   Listen
Low-growing

adjective
1.
Of plants that grow relatively low to the ground.  Synonyms: flat-growing, ground-hugging.






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"Low-growing" Quotes from Famous Books



... breeding work, which has been carried on now without interruption since 1930, is to develop a tall timber type of chestnut by breeding the American species with the blight resistant but comparatively low-growing Japanese and Chinese chestnuts, Castanea crenata and C. mollissima, respectively. Practically all trees of our valuable American chestnut of any appreciable size have now been killed to the ground by the blight fungus, Endothia parasitica. ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting • Various

... a passion for a new conflict rising in them, the soldiers as they hurried on felt the weirdness, the satanic character of the battleground. The fitful flashes of lightning often showed faces stamped with awe; wet boughs of low-growing trees held them back with a moist and sticky touch; the low rumble of thunder came from the far horizon and its tremendous echo passed slowly through the Wilderness; and mingled again with this sound was an occasional cannon shot as the fringes of the two armies hastening on passed ...
— Before the Dawn - A Story of the Fall of Richmond • Joseph Alexander Altsheler

... almost totally covered with grasses, prostrate vines, and low-growing shrubs; small area of trees in the center; primarily a nesting, roosting, and foraging habitat for ...
— The 2001 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... other plants could be kept. They are practically proof against any hardships that may be imposed upon them, and they take up very little room. In addition to that they are always an interesting curiosity, and for that reason alone well worth the little attention they require. The low-growing sorts, among which some of the most curious are to be found, may be given a narrow shelf or the edge of the plant shelf in ...
— Gardening Indoors and Under Glass • F. F. Rockwell

... scantily furnished for a few years. This can be remedied by growing at each side of the row of plants any spring-flowering bulb, or by carpeting in summer with sweet alyssum, sowing seeds in the bed. Any low-growing annual will do, but it must be low-growing or it ...
— Making a Garden of Perennials • W. C. Egan



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