"plant" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The one-celled plants called algae often divide and cling together; and the seaweeds are huge colonies of such cells.
- The seas of Demeter swarmed with organisms, true, enough to create and sustain air that humans could breathe; but just a few primitive plants and creatures clung precariously to existence along the shores.
- Even if it was the ice that had made this place barren, it was the wind that kept it so; any soil which formed was whipped away in a cloud of dust, and only the hardiest plants could find root and cling to the rock.
- Tough-looking plants clung to the rocks for protection in the sheltered spots.
- Even the plants still clung close to the sea, existing, perhaps, only upon rocky surfaces so close to the beach that occasional spray could reach them.
- Enormous, withered, cryptogamous plants with the habit of vines, that crumbled at a touch, were clinging to the hull and the adjacent rocks.
- Worse, every house had a grating below the window, where straggling plants clung to dripping black earth.
- There is also a great deal of creeper activity: plants, threads and small animals attaching themselves to larger things, clinging to or smothering their hosts.
- Blasted plants clung here and there on the volcanic mountainside.
- The plants cling to the 700-sq.
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