Sentence examples for flowers adapt from inspiring English sources

And the "adaptation" of the title is made to earn its keep as a Darwinian metaphor for how flowers adapt - and also how the heart itself adapts.

Flowers adapted to pollination by birds are usually brightly coloured, with reds, blues, and yellows predominating.

Golden Flower, adapted from Yu Cao's play, has been chosen as China's entry at next year's Oscars in the Foreign Language Film Of The Year category.

Honeybees rely heavily on scent as a signal for recognizing rewarding flowers; they adapt to rapid changes in the availability of floral resources through learning [13].

Grass flowers are adapted for wind-pollination.

In such cases, orchid flowers already adapted to butterflies are not greatly changed morphologically.

It was "as unmistakably plain that innumerable flowers are adapted for cross-fertilisation, as that the teeth and talons of a carnivorous animal are adapted for catching prey".

In the bedroom, a plaster frieze of wild waratah flowers was adapted from an old hotel in Melbourne — the use of native flora and fauna typical of Federation style ornament, a period of Australian decorative arts that reflected confidence in the identity of the newly federated nation.

That might explain why a handful of European flowers appear adapted for hovering birds, he adds.

The 361 species of hummingbirds that occur from Alaska to Patagonia pollinate ~7,000 plant species with flowers morphologically adapted to them.

The Arctic poppy and a few of the other flowering herbs adapted to the High Arctic have flowers that are solartropic (turning in response to the Sun).