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
The designer Maruti Evans illustrates the contrast effectively, the icy marble and barren trees of Sicilia transformed into a riot of colorful flora.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Genetic material recovered from internal tissues included bacteria that were part of Ötzi's original gut flora.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 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
During the last ice age, as glaciers and ice sheets spread down from the Arctic, northern flora all over the world naturally tried to escape southwards.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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
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
Sir Joseph Hooker also doubts the generally greater richness of tropical over temperate floras which I have taken as almost an axiom.
From Island Life Or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras by Alfred Russel Wallace
We can hardly doubt that some such change occurred between the Lower and Upper Cretaceous periods, the floras of which exhibit such an extraordinary contrast in general character.
From Island Life Or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras by Alfred Russel Wallace
Greenland and Antarctica are both shrouded in ice sheets in latitudes where fossil floras prove that at other periods the climate was as mild as in England or even New Zealand.
From Climatic Changes Their Nature and Causes by Ellsworth Huntington
Vocabulary lists containing flora
Physical Geography - Introductory
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First-Name Basis: Words That Are Also Names
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Physical Geography - Middle School
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