Example sentences for: flora

How can you use “flora” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The language of the invaders is the language of choice, except in the artificially maintained case of the nomenclature of flora and fauna.

  • On the road to Knossós, look for the Natural History Museum of Crete — an often overlooked attraction but worthwhile for those who enjoy geology, flora, and fauna.

  • Thanks to its situation in a sheltered valley, North Hatley enjoys a particularly pleasant microclimate that attracts hummingbirds and flora indicative of more southern climes.

  • The indigenous flora and fauna likewise have been carefully marketed to tourists as different : the Tasmanian tiger (now probably extinct) lives in legend and forlorn reaches of the remotest parts of the island, the Tasmanian devil (a carnivorous marsupial of undeniably fierce appearance) in tired zoos and nature parks where nonexclusive animals like the kangaroo and koala share the honors with a remarkable range of diminutive marsupials genuinely peculiar to Tassie, which have added value in an age that cultivates the notion of wilderness.

  • Other loanwords repeat the Sydney pattern, striking or otherwise significant flora, fauna, and weapons being named: so there is the Tasmanian boobialla , a fruit-bearing Acacia, the Melburnian bullan bullan , a beautiful bird with a lyre-shaped tail, the Brisbane yungan gong, the Adelaide pinkie , a bilby or bandicoot, and the Perth quokka , a species of wallaby.


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