Definitions
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- adjective having good branches
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Examples
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Rauhbaum Method -- This is the placing of dense and well-branched trees, tree tips or bamboos along the bank.
Chapter 17 1992
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Temporary Groynes -- A series of temporary structures of dense and well-branched trees, tree tops or bamboos are used.
Chapter 17 1992
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Sorghum is both drought-resistant and able to tolerate waterlogging better than maize because of its deep and well-branched root system.
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Give support immediately with well-branched twigs, and it is important that the plants be kept perfectly upright.
The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition Sutton and Sons
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(England) that is to say an earth, wherein the manure is so well mingled and incorporated, as that it becometh earthie, that is to say, all turned into earth, and not making any shew any more of dung: which is likewise moist and shadowie, wide and roomy, for in a narrow and straight place it would not grow high, straight, great and well-branched.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings
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Good varieties of hickories bear good nuts and more people should plant good trees which should be produced by nurseries with well-branched fibrous root systems so that they will transplant easily.
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The Isopyrum under notice grows 12in. or 15in. high, and produces its dark brown flowers on slender, well-branched stems, forming feathery panicles, which have a graceful appearance.
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Do not fail to pinch back seedlings and cuttings during their early stages of growth, to induce the formation of stocky, well-branched plants.
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Our experience in transplanting pecan trees has been such as to indicate the necessity of having a well-branched, well-developed root system, and a taproot, when present, should be left at least as long as indicated above.
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Leave but three strong shoots, and this year pinch them back as soon as they are four feet high, thus producing three stocky, well-branched bushes, which in sheltered places will be self-supporting.
The Home Acre Edward Payson Roe 1863
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