flora
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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
The government insists it has met all "green" requirements and has pledged to protect Great Nicobar's peoples, communities, as well as its unique flora and fauna, by establishing protected zones.
From Barron's ● May 18, 2026
With so much moisture in the air and loose dirt from both tectonic upheavals and the new species of flora tearing up the topsoil, it was like thin mud being thrown constantly in your face.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
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
All these latter, except Ulmus and Planera, have been found also in the Eastern-Australian Tertiaries, and we may therefore consider that at this period the northern temperate element in both floras was identical.
From Island Life Or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras by Alfred Russel Wallace
The flora of the southwestern interior basin of North America in early late to late Pliocene was intermediate between the previous grassland floras of the middle Pliocene and the savannah flora of upper Pliocene.
From Speciation and Evolution of the Pygmy Mice, Genus Baiomys by Robert L. Packard
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
They are sufficient to explain the reason for the existence of local floras.
From Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America
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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