LOW-GROWING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does low-growing mean? 

• LOW-GROWING (adjective)
  The adjective LOW-GROWING has 1 sense:

1. of plants that grow relatively low to the ground

  Familiarity information: LOW-GROWING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOW-GROWING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of plants that grow relatively low to the ground

Synonyms:

flat-growing; ground-hugging; low-growing

Similar:

low (literal meanings; being at or having a relatively small elevation or upward extension)

 Context examples 

As far-northern tundra gives way to low-growing shrubs and then to forests, the distribution of snowshoe hares is a factor in where spruce trees can successfully grow.

(Race across the tundra: White spruce vs. snowshoe hare, National Science Foundation)

He lay down in the snow, depositing the ptarmigan beside him, and with eyes peering through the needles of a low-growing spruce he watched the play of life before him—the waiting lynx and the waiting porcupine, each intent on life; and, such was the curiousness of the game, the way of life for one lay in the eating of the other, and the way of life for the other lay in being not eaten.

(White Fang, by Jack London)