flora
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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
Excursions are led by Orvis-endorsed guide Scott Penn, who covers the history, flora and fauna of the region along the way.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
The county, local agencies, utilities and property owners are in a constant battle with the flora and fauna just beyond fencelines and backyards.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
His siblings would recall him careening about, hurdling flora, fauna, and furniture.
From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand
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
Successive faunas and floras were created only to be extinguished by general cataclysms.
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
The forests are thus highly diversified and partake of the characteristics of both the northern and southern floras.
From North America by Israel C. (Cook) Russell
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
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Physical Geography - Introductory
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Physical Geography - Middle School
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