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- noun Plural form of
flora .
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Examples
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Conrad had even found one vault full of natural florae growing quietly underneath an artificial light source.
365 tomorrows » Sam Clough : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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Conrad had even found one vault full of natural florae growing quietly underneath an artificial light source.
365 tomorrows » 2008 » October : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008
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There used to be Apis cerana, Apis dorsata, Apis florae and Apis mellifera.
Venom Joan Brady 2010
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My old posts were generally so random they were actually making a collective run on the interstellar plane for God of Chaos, a coveted position that apparently necessitates a lot of haphazard references to various florae and faunae and a creepy tendency to drop in Latin for no obvious reason.
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This map shows where these neo-florae have been released into the environment, which institutions have applied for the permits to conduct the experiments, and what enhancements these organisms have been engineered with, for instance, drought tolerance and fungal resistance.
Transgenic Storms 2009
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This map shows where these neo-florae have been released into the environment, which institutions have applied for the permits to conduct the experiments, and what enhancements these organisms have been engineered with, for instance, drought tolerance and fungal resistance.
Archive 2009-09-01 2009
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Each community differs further in secondary florae.
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And yet there is no better evidence for the contemporaneity assumed by all who adopt the hypothesis of universal faunae and florae, of a universally uniform climate, and of a sensible cooling of the globe during geological time.
Essays 2007
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Animals and plants began their existence together, not long after the commencement of the deposition of the sedimentary rocks; and then succeeded one another, in such a manner, that totally distinct faunae and florae occupied the whole surface of the earth, one after the other, and during distinct epochs of time.
Essays 2007
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Thus: -- Animals and plants began their existence together, not long after the commencement of the deposition of the sedimentary rocks; and then succeeded one another, in such a manner, that totally distinct faunae and florae occupied the whole surface of the earth, one after the other, and during distinct epochs of time.
Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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