stiff-branched love

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  • adjective having stiff branches

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Examples

  • This variety is of slenderer growth than Crimson Rambler, therefore of more vine-like habit, and, on this account, better adapted to use about porches and verandas, where it can be trained along the cornice in a graceful fashion that the stiff-branched Crimson Rambler will not admit of.

    Amateur Gardencraft A Book for the Home-Maker and Garden Lover 1882

  • Along the shores wild haws and wild plums still adhered to the bushes, and the stiff-branched persimmon-trees bore thousands of their tomato-like fruit.

    The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times George Alfred Townsend 1877

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