flora
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Genetic material recovered from internal tissues included bacteria that were part of Ötzi's original gut flora.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
Because they drained their savings buying and fixing up the house, they needed the cash infusions to fund the flora.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
Its landscapes include grasslands, lagoons, heathland and vegetated shingle, which supports a range of creatures, flora and fauna - not just birds.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
The government insists it has met all "green" requirements and has pledged to protect Great Nicobar's peoples, communities, as well as its unique flora and fauna, by establishing protected zones.
From Barron's ● May 18, 2026
That variation favored the evolution, among the flora, of an especially high percentage of annual plants.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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Of the 1,000 or so species of floras in the park, lodgepole pine and the duff from its fallen needles and branches provided most of the fuel for the fires.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The differences between the faunas and floras of these countries are too great and too radical to render it possible that any such connection should have existed except at a very remote period.
From Island Life Or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras by Alfred Russel Wallace
Map of, 215.Fossil floras, 256.France, possessions of, 419, 424.Fur-bearing animals, 278-282. Galveston,
From North America by Israel C. (Cook) Russell
Within the tropical forest, however, there are high mountains on which trees with the general characteristic of those more northern floras find a congenial habitat.
From North America by Israel C. (Cook) Russell
Oceanic islands have, as a rule, distinctive faunas and floras which resemble, but are not identical with, those of other islands in similar positions.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
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Physical Geography - Introductory
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Physical Geography - Middle School
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