flora
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Along the way, you can learn about the flora and fauna via informational plaques.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
Then come the notions and hardware, like earring posts, beads and crystal accents, that complete the transformation from fleeting flora to lasting adornment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
The tails side of every newly-minted coin from the 1p to the £2 now features the country's flora and fauna - from bees to an oak tree leaf.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
Genetic material recovered from internal tissues included bacteria that were part of Ötzi's original gut flora.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
Those were some of the advantages that the Fertile Crescent’s flora afforded the first farmers: it included an unusually high percentage of wild plants suitable for domestication.
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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He was distinguished for his researches on the Tertiary floras of various parts of Europe, and on the fossil floras of Australia and New Zealand.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" by Various
The question of the mode in which the floras of islands and of continents have been formed gave rise to important speculations by such eminent botanical travellers as Charles Darwin, Sir J.D.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" by Various
Let us run briefly over the geologic history of insects, in order that we may mark the peculiar light which it casts on the character of the ancient floras.
From The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Hugh Miller
The flora of the southwestern interior basin of North America in early late to late Pliocene was intermediate between the previous grassland floras of the middle Pliocene and the savannah flora of upper Pliocene.
From Speciation and Evolution of the Pygmy Mice, Genus Baiomys by Robert L. Packard
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Physical Geography - Introductory
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