Sentence examples for ancient plants from inspiring English sources

Cycads are those odd ancient plants that look like palms but are actually more like modern conifers.

Though rich in history, their book makes no claims for the mythic healing powers of these ancient plants.

Conifers are ancient plants, which evolved to withstand the wind, intense light and poor soil of high elevations.

Juncus (also known as rush) and equisetum (or horsetail), ancient plants that love to have their feet in water.

Seeds from the ancient plants germinated with 100 percent success, compared with 90 percent for seeds from living campions.

It's like wild-catting transcendence; the wayward afterlife of ancient plants; a secondary imperfect parable of power for metaphor, transport, speech through smoke.

The National Mining Association now refers to coal, which is formed from ancient plant matter, as "buried sunshine".

And the thawing, as it feeds on itself, frees up more and more ancient plant debris.

To study the ancient plant, Dilcher and his team slowly dissolved the limestone around more than 1000 fossils.

Her most-influential work involved the use of pollen recovered from lake sediment and soil to reconstruct ancient plant communities.

Chard is an ancient plant related to beets and was first called Swiss chard by the Dutch, according to Jane Grigson, an English food historian and writer.