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He gave each new model a pet name—the first was a "Weedie" and the second a "Clippie"—and designed logos for each based on portraits of his children with unruly, grass-like hair.
Dance Studio Owner Invented Weed Eater Stephen Miller 2011
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Wild sarsaparilla, wild oats, Solomon's seal and a host of understory plants die off; grass-like species such as Pennsylvania sedge take over.
The Real Story of Globalization Charles C. Mann 2011
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He gave each new model a pet name—the first was a "Weedie" and the second a "Clippie"—and designed logos for each based on portraits of his children with unruly, grass-like hair.
Dance Studio Owner Invented Weed Eater Stephen Miller 2011
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Plant amid billowy green tufts of grass-like Lomandra "Breeze."
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Look up, and you might see the grass-like leaves of the giants of coal age forests, the lycopids, or the diamond patterns of their bark.
Archive 2008-09-01 The Nag 2008
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The Vetiver has grown rich and earthy over time, maintaining a distinctive, sweet grass-like character that turns me into jelly every time I smell it on myself or a man dark chocolate and saffron have the same effect so if the three are ever combined I will be a slave to the provocateur.
Kiehl's Vetiver Essence: A Case Study for Countering Hyper Regulation? Michelle Krell Kydd 2009
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In a couple of weeks or so, however, impossibly green slivers of grass-like leaves will break through the ice, silver stripes down their middle.
Archive 2009-02-01 doyle 2009
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In a couple of weeks or so, however, impossibly green slivers of grass-like leaves will break through the ice, silver stripes down their middle.
Crocus doyle 2009
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The hairy, grass-like leaves originate from the base of the plant.
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Yellow Star Grass, Hypoxis hirsuta is a low, tufted, grass-like perennial, growing 3-8 in. tall from a hard, hairy corm.
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