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all the plant life in a particular region or period- flora and fauna of the region
- He studied the flora of southern California.
- Also a few pages might have been given up profitably to the consideration of the indigenous flora and fauna of Kukuanaland.Haggard, Rider H. -- King Solomon's Mines
- The Flora of the Galapagos Archipelago is the subject of a separate memoir by him, in the 'Linnean Transactions'.Darwin, Charles -- The Voyage of the Beagle
- And it draws the connection between a minor destabilization in seasonal flora and the insignificant destruction of a black girl.Toni Morrison -- The Bluest Eye
- A member of the aristocracy; Lady Flora, Lady Felicia—something of that sort.Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volumes 1 & 2
- Flora Thompson, Lark RiseRichard Adams -- Watership Down
- A member of the aristocracy; Lady Flora, Lady Felicia—something of that sort.Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2
- ] [Footnote 497: "Wreaths" and "Flora's Chaplets."Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
- floras and Hobber had no part of this, did they?George R.R. Martin -- A Feast For Crows
- And could such a selection over a very long period of time create new species of flora and fauna?Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
- Where did they get off with this flora elegance?Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March
- By the bye, Flora Ross was dying for Henry the first winter she came out.Jane Austen -- Mansfield Park
- That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, has actually been arrested.Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- The leading members of ToHMAS were mostly women, among them Esme, Cha Cha, Amelia, Yvonne, and Flora.Luis J. Rodriguez -- Always Running
- Huge papier-maché flora hung in varying shades of green splendor among sequin-dusted branches and rocks.Gloria Naylor -- The Women of Brewster Place
- I want to avenge Rebecca and Flora MacIvor and Minna, and all the rest of the dark unhappy ones.George Eliot -- The Mill on the Floss
- I am not speaking of transplanted Terran flora and fauna — our stuff moves in and brushes the native stuff aside.Robert A. Heinlein -- Starship Troopers
- "Astonishing, magnificent, splendid!" cried my uncle; "here we have before us the whole flora of the second period of the world, that of transition.Jules Verne -- A Journey to the Center of the Earth
- "I was Flora Hernandez," she said.Alice Sebold -- The Lovely Bones
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