Sentence examples for grows upon from inspiring English sources

Epiphyte, also called air plant, any plant that grows upon another plant or object merely for physical support.

He describes the landlord who, admiring his fields, consumes in his imagination "the whole harvest that grows upon them".

Auricularia auricula-judae grows upon the wood of deciduous trees and shrubs, favouring elder.

The specific name sasicola refers to the fact the species grows upon the leaves of Sasa species.

The fruiting body is distinguished by its noticeably ear-like shape and brown colouration; it grows upon wood, especially elder.

The fungus can be found throughout the year in temperate regions worldwide, where it grows upon both dead and living wood.

As a group, ferns are either terrestrial or epiphytic (growing upon another plant).

"I find the Carlophilipemanuelbachomania grow upon me so, that almost everything else is insipid to me," wrote an English enthusiast in 1774.

Later, he was to call that book "a symbol of the anti-imperialism which had been growing upon me more and more in my last years in Ceylon".

It grew upon me that I ought to walk out to the horizon and see what the end of the world was like".

Dozens of words, none of them synonymous, described the look of a hill, the angle of slope and the way trees grew upon it.