Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Grown high, as a plant.
- Covered with tall vegetation.
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Examples
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Because many Brazilian coffees grow at low altitudes, they tend to be less dense than high-grown coffees, which means they often fare poorly when dark-roasted in the style that has become popular at places like Starbucks and Peet's.
Drippy No More Katy McLaughlin 2012
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All-encompassing and yet very delicate, it trickles in your bones; slowly it lifts the hairs on your legs, your arms, your chest, in waves like fields of high-grown grass under a gentle wind.
Zombies vs. Unicorns Justine Larbalestier 2010
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He seemed to have a passion for smashing through big, high-grown ox-fences, and by degrees his rider came to feel that if there was nothing worse coming, the fun was not bad.
Phineas Finn 2004
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He led her into this, and, pausing where a group of high-grown shrubs screened them from all possible passers-by, he spoke with all the passion he had hitherto restrained.
Mrs. Red Pepper 1912
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Then the board walk turned abruptly to cross a marsh, high-grown now with ripening cat-tails.
Lydia of the Pines Honor�� Morrow 1910
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The shape was shadowy and indeterminate at first; it might have been a bush, a sheaf of straw, a clump of high-grown weeds, for birds fluttered just above it, and the swallows darted down without alarm.
The Extra Day Algernon Blackwood 1910
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Antiguas, and other high-grown coffees, that had theretofore been penalized for the small size of bean, soon brought a premium, and have ever since been in great demand.
All About Coffee 1909
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To Clarence E. Bickford belongs the credit of having discovered the cup qualities of high-grown Central American coffees.
All About Coffee 1909
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The bean is high-grown, of medium size, and roundish.
All About Coffee 1909
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Along the shore of the lakes, among the high-grown reeds, they looked in vain.
Old Indian Legends 1876-1938 Zitkala-Sa 1907
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