flora
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Over the course of the next half-century, she produced more than 5,000 works in crayon, oil and collage: landscapes and masklike images—amalgams of abstraction, figuration, flora and fauna.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
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
Our other example of indigenous agriculture apparently constrained by the local flora comes from the eastern United States.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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
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
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
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
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Physical Geography - Introductory
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Physical Geography - Middle School
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