Sentences with phrase «small clusters spread»

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Often arranged on the floor, spreading around corners in indeterminate shapes, Apfelbaum's forms comprise intricate, nearly psychedelic layers of dyed fabric, as if myriad smaller paintings had sprung from a cental cluster of colorful shapes.

The successes in arresting and reversing the spread of the desert tend to be local and small - scale, typically in a village, a cluster of villages, or an oasis.

Inflorescence a densely flowered, cylindrical spike, 20 - 35 mm long, 8 - 11 mm thick near the base and narrowing slightly toward the blunt apex, solitary in the leaf axil, or solitary or in clusters of 2 - 4 in the axil of small spines on short, lateral, usually leafless, axillary branches; peduncles glabrous to lightly puberulent, 5 - 15 mm long, 2 - 4 mm thick, thickest just below the inflorescence; involucre usually puberulent, 4 - lobed, the lobes spreading, located near the base of the peduncle.