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  • adjective Growing rapidly

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fast +‎ growing

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Examples

  • What was unusual was that the inn was built in the mighty branches of a vallenwood tree, a graceful, fastgrowing giant that seemed to thrive around Solace.

    Stalling 2010

  • Africa needs to build its research and development (R&D) capacity to participate effectively in the fastgrowing concentrating solar power market.

    Endowment opportunities from atmospheric resources in Africa 2008

  • As two prominent Washington journalists struggle to avoid jail time over their refusal to disclose confidential sources, one of the biggest obstacles the reporters face is America's fastgrowing army of citizen Web loggers, or bloggers.

    Boing Boing: January 2, 2005 - January 8, 2005 Archives 2005

  • Some countries in Southern Africa have very fastgrowing populations, and face the challenge of needing to increase food supplies to meet demand for food.

    Southern Africa and forests and woodlands 2007

  • A prolific, fastgrowing "urban" goat with high twinning and low mortality.

    1 Microcattle 1991

  • What was unusual was that the inn was built in the mighty branches of a vallenwood tree, a graceful, fastgrowing giant that seemed to thrive around Solace.

    Kendermore Kirchoff, Mary 1989

  • Ailanthus excelsa is a fastgrowing tree that regenerates well by coppicing.

    Chapter 7 1983

  • Eucalyptus brassiana is a fastgrowing species with the capacity to produce coppice shoots.

    Chapter 5 1983

  • Instead, mangium should be incorporated into trials with fastgrowing tropical trees such as leucaena, Pinus caribaea,

    Chapter 3 1983

  • It is a fastgrowing, insect - and disease-resistant tree, and tolerates a wide range of soil conditions, including poorly drained and saline soils.

    Chapter 6 1983

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