widely-straggling

Updated: May 20, 2025

Its smooth bark, piebald with white and green spots, its widely-straggling limbs and leaves, left no doubt about its being one. It was the sycamore, identical with its European congener, the Platanus orientalis. It is the habit of this fine tree to become hollow.

Mayne Reid - The Cliff Climbers: A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters"