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Example sentences for: grasses

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While gardeners today make the distinction between heath and heather plants, these words are said to derive by separate paths from some ancient word for wasteland; heath via the Anglo-Saxon, and heather via Norse hadder . In Scandinavia, the plant itself is called lyng or ling , which is a common name in Yorkshire and northern England generally for what the Scots and Irish call heather . Ling is used as a name in parts of Scotland too, but this includes the rough grasses as well as the heathers that grow on the wasterland.
(Best guesses: 12 billion years; absorption of carbon dioxide by grasses lowers temperatures; to process memories; not the foggiest idea.)
Most ecologists work by carrying out experimental manipulations on small groups of similar organisms: the warblers in a woodland, for example, or the grasses of a meadow.
Michael Brady, who managed the Canadian project in Jakarta, points out that headmen in remote communities are still likely to believe that wildfires start spontaneously, by grasses rubbing together or even by magic.
Spring offers the fresh green of grasses in the valley and bracken on the hills.