vegetation
Example Sentences
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The houses on either side are over 20 paces away and mostly shielded from view by vegetation.
Vineland, Will’s neighborhood, is indeed covered in vines and yet the vegetation appears organically integrated into the infrastructure.
From Los Angeles Times
An international team led in part by researchers at Aarhus University used advanced computer simulations to examine how climate, large animals, natural fires, and humans shaped European vegetation during two past warm periods.
From Science Daily
Some of those teeth were located on the roof of the mouth, an arrangement that strongly suggests the animal could process vegetation.
From Science Daily
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
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