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
For those unfamiliar with these funky flora, be warned.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
Excursions are led by Orvis-endorsed guide Scott Penn, who covers the history, flora and fauna of the region along the way.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 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
Even modern European plant geneticists have failed to develop any crop except macadamia nuts from Australia’s native wild flora.
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 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
These same students of the progress of plant life on the continent have also made extensive and critical studies of the Cenozoic floras.
From North America by Israel C. (Cook) Russell
Carrying with us this twofold division of the vegetable kingdom and its subdivisions, we shall be prepared to understand the relation of the more ancient floras to that now living.
From The Chain of Life in Geological Time A Sketch of the Origin and Succession of Animals and Plants by Sir J. William Dawson
Everywhere we have abundant floras and faunas indicating warmer conditions than such as now prevail, but never in a single instance one which as clearly indicates colder conditions.
From Island Life Or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras by Alfred Russel Wallace
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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