flora
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Burnt-sienna vines twist through simmering ocher air, while flora sprout through these roiling masses in hues of chromium oxide and cadmium green.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 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
Genetic material recovered from internal tissues included bacteria that were part of Ötzi's original gut flora.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 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
A foremost authority on prairie flora and fauna, she could discuss at length the thirty-seven varieties of hydrangea in Crawford County.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
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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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On the whole, there seems to be less difference between the floras of Arctic and temperate latitudes in Upper Cretaceous than in Miocene times.
From Island Life Or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras by Alfred Russel Wallace
Some floras of early late Pliocene of the southwestern United States reflect a climate slightly cooler and more moist than the climates of the middle Pliocene.
From Speciation and Evolution of the Pygmy Mice, Genus Baiomys by Robert L. Packard
In this way the similarity between the Alpine and Scandinavian faunas and floras is assumed to have been brought about.
From The History of the European Fauna by Robert Francis Scharff
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
Vocabulary lists containing flora
Physical Geography - Introductory
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Physical Geography - Middle School
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