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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
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Description: A soft, weak-stemmed trailing plant arising from underground rhizomes.
Chapter 7 1999
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Description: A scrambling, prostrate or erect weak-stemmed herb 45-100 cm high.
Chapter 7 1999
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Agriculturists may classify it as a weak-stemmed "weed," but not the farmers.
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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
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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
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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.
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