flora
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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
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 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
Ma glances at the lush tropical landscape and concludes, “This must be the Mesozoic era. Jurassic or Cretaceous period, I’d say, judging from the flora and fauna. What do you think, Jax?”
From "Dragons in a Bag" by Zetta Elliott
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
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
Edible fungi in America, 88.Ergotized grass, 217.Erysiphe, conjugation, 176.Erysiphei, polymorphism, 191.Esculent fungi, 82.European floras, 279.Examination of fungi, 289.Exotic floras, 280–5.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
In this way the similarity between the Alpine and Scandinavian faunas and floras is assumed to have been brought about.
From The History of the European Fauna by Robert Francis Scharff
The record is now in many important parts too complete, and the simultaneousness of the entrance of the faunas and floras too certainly established, and moving species from place to place only evades the difficulty.
From The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science by John William Dawson
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Physical Geography - Introductory
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Physical Geography - Middle School
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