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  • adjective having a weak stem

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  • Description: A large-leafed weak-stemmed aquatic herb to

    Chapter 7 1999

  • Description: A soft, weak-stemmed trailing plant arising from underground rhizomes.

    Chapter 7 1999

  • Description: A scrambling, prostrate or erect weak-stemmed herb 45-100 cm high.

    Chapter 7 1999

  • Agriculturists may classify it as a weak-stemmed "weed," but not the farmers.

    13. Other Cultivated Grains 1996

  • A downward direction of the stem or branches occurs in many weak-stemmed plants growing upon rocks or walls, or in trees with very long slender branches as in _Salix Babylonica_, and the condition may often be produced artificially as in the weeping ash.

    Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

  • There are huckleberries of many species, red, blue, and black, some of them growing close to the ground, others on bushes eight to ten feet high; also salal berries, growing on a low, weak-stemmed bush, a species of gaultheria, seldom more than a foot or two high.

    Steep Trails John Muir 1876

  • They were tall (150-160 cm), weak-stemmed, prone to lodging and yielded 9-10 quintals of paddy an acre over 155-160 days, leading to delayed wheat sowing.

    unknown title 2009

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