Sentence examples for thick underground from inspiring English sources

The plants do not grow from bulbs, but from thick underground stems called rhizomes.

They are large, perennial, climbing or trailing vines with short, thick, underground stems producing many prickly, angular, aboveground stems.

If lightning strikes in ferocious amounts during the first storms of November and December, the Bedouins say, the truffles will grow thick underground.

Rhizomatous roots are thick, underground stems from which smaller fibrous roots grow.

Because the high-sulfur coal had been ignored for so long, the coal seams are thicker, not as deep underground, and thus easier (and cheaper) to mine.

They had been dug deep underground and their walls were as thick as cement.

Reservoirs deep underground reply.

The woody ringed stems, known as culms, are typically hollow between the rings (nodes) and grow in branching clusters from a thick rhizome (underground stem).

Solomon's seal, any plant of the genus Polygonatum of the family Ruscaceae, consisting of about 25 species of herbaceous perennials with thick, creeping underground stems and tall, drooping stems, distributed throughout the Northern Hemisphere.

In Fort McMurray, in Alberta, Canada, notorious for its oil sands — thick sludge buried underground whose extraction leaves behind vast amounts of poisonous wastewater — Blackwell investigates the mass death of waterfowl in ponds filled with toxic tailing.

Amazing how blue and thick the ice is underground :-)".