vegetation

Example Sentences

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Sphagnum moss can hold 20 times its weight in water and helps create peat bogs, where dead vegetation accumulates rather than decays, capturing carbon in the ground.

From BBC

These toxic elements sat in the channel’s then-stagnant water, which led to a die-off of all vegetation and the emission of foul-smelling hydrogen sulfide.

From Los Angeles Times

The agriculture and environment ministries said laboratory tests confirmed the substance was glyphosate, a chemical used to destroy vegetation, with concentrations in some samples "between 20 and 30 times the levels usually accepted".

From BBC

As I advanced into the interior, parting bushes and brushing branches aside with trepidation, I discovered a rocky landscape covered in vegetation.

From Literature

A nonprofit proposes to eliminate Catalina Island’s deer population using contracted hunters, saying the nonnative animals heighten wildfire risk by eating native vegetation.

From Los Angeles Times