This meant that their herds were of hardy local stock.

He's bred them together for some tough, hardy stock.

Although I had long thought I came from pretty hardy stock, completing this portion of the questionnaire got me thinking twice about my potential medical vulnerability.

Perhaps he was the sort who studied computer graphics in the search for hardier stock, faster sprouting, more deceptive poppies.

That was effective, and the cut closed in a moment, for we monsters are of hardy stock.

The disease could make a Longhorn sick, but they were hardier stock than the northern cattle and Longhorns seldom died from the disease.

Already, the new town construction was halfway there, though the residents were far hardier stock than the average Imperial.

The foreigners who've been here a while are usually from pretty hardy stock.

Mrs. Coleman also says she seeks out roses that have been reproduced by being bud grafted onto hardier stock.

In the commercial farming industry, consistency is maintained by grafting a scion with desired fruit traits onto a hardy stock.