Illustration: A vigorous bitter-melon vine covers the trellis outside a ground-floor apartment, its overlapping leaves forming a thick screen from planter level to the balcony above. Tendrils extend around the supports, and several fruits hang within the foliage.

JLPT N2verbLevel estimated by Bebop

茂しげる

shigeru

to grow thickly

Example sentences

丘おかには低ひくい木きがたくさん茂しげっている。
Lots of low trees grow on the hill.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
こんもりと茂しげった木々きぎの葉はを通とおして日光にっこうが差さし込こんだ。
The sunshine penetrated the thick leaves of the trees.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
公園こうえんは樹木じゅもくがよく茂しげっている。
The park is well wooded.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 茂

茂overgrown; grow thickOnモKunしげる

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