All 10 Uses
flora
in
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
(Edited)
- These algae are a genuine prodigy of creation, one of the wonders of world flora.
Chpt 1flora = plant life
- Here the range of underwater flora seemed pretty comprehensive to me, as well as more abundant than it might have been in the arctic or tropical zones, where such exhibits are less common.
Chpt 1
- Flora and fauna are so closely associated in the underwater world!
Chpt 1
- The local flora was represented by fine floating algae: sea tangle, and kelp from the genus Macrocystis, saturated with the mucilage their pores perspire, from which I selected a wonderful Nemastoma geliniaroidea, classifying it with the natural curiosities in the museum.
Chpt 1
- Meanwhile, ignoring all these fine specimens of Papuan flora, the Canadian passed up the decorative in favor of the functional.
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- Just then a huge cave opened up in our path, hollowed from a picturesque pile of rocks whose smooth heights were completely hung with underwater flora.
Chpt 2
- How many new specimens of underwater flora and fauna I marveled at beneath the light of our electric beacon!
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- On the rocky, volcanic seafloor, there bloomed quite a collection of moving flora: sponges, sea cucumbers, jellyfish called sea gooseberries that were adorned with reddish tendrils and gave off a subtle phosphorescence, members of the genus Beroe that are commonly known by the name melon jellyfish and are bathed in the shimmer of the whole solar spectrum, free–swimming crinoids one meter wide that reddened the waters with their crimson hue, treelike basket stars of the greatest beauty,…
Chpt 2
- There the local flora was represented by a wide carpet of samphire, a small umbelliferous plant that keeps quite nicely, which also boasts the names glasswort, saxifrage, and sea fennel.
Chpt 2
- The whole meager flora of this region consisted of certain microscopic buds, rudimentary diatoms made up of a type of cell positioned between two quartz–rich shells, plus long purple and crimson fucus plants, buoyed by small air bladders and washed up on the coast by the surf.
Chpt 2
Definitions:
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(1)
(flora) all the plant life in a particular region or period
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Flora is also used as female name, and was the name of the Roman goddess of flowers, spring, and fertility.