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The plant is an erect annual herb with the height ranging from 0.5 metres to 3.5 metres tall.
This lichen has a scale-like squamulose structure but also produces erect stalked cups termed podetia.
The maned wolf of South America is a magnificent animal with a pointed muzzle and very large erect ears.
Most species have relatively small heads with short, pointed or semipointed, erect ears and a relatively long, pointed muzzle.
With sturdy metal beams as their building blocks, architects and engineers could erect monumental skyscrapers hundreds of feet in the air.
These early Caribbean planters were among the first Europeans in the New World to erect such a comprehensive slave code.
The strongly transverse mucronate outline was one of the major criteria used by Crickmay to erect Regelia.
Older studies noted that runners, stolons or prostrate stems of many plants became more erect when shaded.
A Bailey bridge is best described as a kit-form bridge system that is versatile and is relatively quick to erect and dismantle.
Greenwich Council has given the church permission to erect a new church building and a terrace of six houses.
Degas drew Perrot, erect and white-haired, a little thick in the middle, grasping a ballet master's stick for beating time.
Equally, the decision to erect a marquee in the car park to cater for some corporate functions has been questioned by events organisers.
The second tendency is for societies to erect moral codes, which often frown on behaviour encoded by our selfish genes.
They also plan to erect a standing stone in New York City's Central Park, carved with Viking runes in honour of Eriksson's 1000th anniversary.
Security forces intervened when youths threw burning tyres into the streets and tried to erect barricades.
This land was offered to the Basilians on the condition that they erect a parish church along with a college.
Lord's forms are hand-built rather than thrown on the wheel, but that doesn't mean they can't be erect and symmetrical.
It is erect and rigid, light green in color slightly shaded reddish brown, fairly tomentous and glandular, and bearing some tiny prickles.
Oaks toothwort is an interesting native wildflower with rhizomatous growth and erect stems from 10-30 cm tall.
The county council did decide to purchase 500 signposts to erect at junctions and dangerous corners.
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