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  • adjective having many stems

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Examples

  • I followed a stream downhill into a quintessentially English coppice of straight-trunked oaks and catkin-laden, multi-stemmed hazels, whose like has all but disappeared from the landscape.

    Country diary: Durham city 2011

  • We started noticing large holes in the bark and there were dozens of trees that were little more than bonsais: stubby oaks and ashes that had been so regularly munched on that they were multi-stemmed dwarves.

    Tobias Jones: a retreat of one's own Tobias Jones 2010

  • Iroquois Beauty™ is a multi-stemmed, deciduous shrub selected for its unique compact habit, showy display of small white flower clusters, glossy foliage, showy orange to deep red fall foliage and abundant production of black fruit.

    ARONIA 'IROQUOIS BEAUTY' Pooky 2009

  • Of course, you may want to feature it as a focal item or an accent plant to showcase its dense, rounded, multi-stemmed habit.

    AN EXTRAORDINARY VIBURNUM FOR FOUNDATIONS: 'BLUE MUFFIN' Pooky 2008

  • It is a multi-stemmed, suckering, and deciduous shrub that grows to 5' tall and 6' wide in about 8 years.

    BLOODTWIG DOGWOOD 'WINTER BEAUTY' AGAINST THE SNOW Pooky 2008

  • In these situations the mopane woodland is converted to a tall grassland with unusually low (0.3 to 1.6 m), multi-stemmed mopane shrubs.

    Angolan Mopane woodlands 2008

  • W. nodiflora is a multi-stemmed shrub with a swollen underground tuber that occurs on the edges of the forest and survives fires by resprouting.

    South Malawi montane forest-grassland mosaic 2008

  • 'Diana' is vigorous, multi-stemmed, and will max out at about 5-8' tall.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Pooky 2008

  • Of course, you may want to feature it as a focal item or an accent plant to showcase its dense, rounded, multi-stemmed habit.

    Archive 2008-01-01 Pooky 2008

  • It is a multi-stemmed, suckering, and deciduous shrub that grows to 5' tall and 6' wide in about 8 years.

    Archive 2008-01-01 Pooky 2008

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