Sentence examples for drifting plants from inspiring English sources

An opening at the top can be closed by two pairs of plates (an operculum) through which feathery, jointed legs (cirri) can be extended into the water to capture small drifting plants and animals (plankton).

They are floating, drifting, plant-like organisms that harness the energy of the sun, mix it with carbon dioxide that they take from the atmosphere, and turn it into carbohydrates and oxygen.

Furthermore, drifting floating plants also carry seeds.

One was a drift plant on Prince Edward Island (Atlantic) and the other two were the crustose sporophytic phase encountered to the south in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, USA.

It then travels with the wind and current, apparently receiving minor replenishment from coastal plants drifting in from the southwest.

Remains on the sea strand were mostly drifting trees and plants from the Mana and Maroni rivers; very few dead marine animals were observed and no seaweeds.

Joined by organic farmers and other county residents, she hopes to block genetically modified crops before they are planted because drifting pollen could contaminate other crops and wild plants.

His early paintings are full of soft, drifting sea creatures and plants.

Hence the rainforest's high level of humidity, visible from the observation tower in diaphanous cloudlets drifting over the canopy.That plants emit oxygen has long been known since 1774, in fact, when Joseph Priestley, a British chemist, found a mouse not too "inconvenienced" by being trapped inside a bell-jar with a mint plant.

Do not spray plants with horticultural oil when it is windy as the oil could drift to other plants that do not need to be sprayed and damage them.

Nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxides emitted from such plants drift to the Northeast, accounting for a large share of that region's air pollution.