Sentence examples for live primarily on from inspiring English sources

Coralroot, any plant of the genus Corallorhiza, family Orchidaceae, consisting of about a dozen species of nearly leafless, nonphotosynthetic orchids that live primarily on dead organic matter with the help of mycorrhizae.

Soil organisms, which range in size from microscopic cells that digest decaying organic material to small mammals that live primarily on other soil organisms, play an important role in maintaining fertility, structure, drainage, and aeration of soil.

The Mikea live primarily on food scavenged from the forest but also grow seasonal crops.

Barramundi are ideal for farming -- docile, fertile, disease-resistant, and can live primarily on vegetarian feed.

The structure of the feet and legs varies greatly among frog species, depending in part on whether they live primarily on the ground, in water, in trees or in burrows.

Present evidence indicates that Osedax species live primarily on organic compounds extracted directly from sunken bones.

At the same time, the economic position of the samurai, who lived primarily on fixed stipends, was being eroded.

Based on the wistful stories of those looking back through a fug of nostalgia, in the 1940s children lived primarily on South Melbourne market dim sims, hot jam donuts and drunken kebabs with extra garlic sauce.

When he was young, crop yields were terrible, and of what grew, birds, mice and insects got more than his family, who lived primarily on corn, taro, sweet potato and bits of eel.

Yakan, also spelled Yacan, ethnic group living primarily on Basilan Island but also on Sacol, Malanipa, and Tumalutab islands, all off the southern tip of the Zamboanga Peninsula, in the southern Philippines.

Javanese language, member of the Western, or Indonesian, branch of the Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian) language family, spoken as a native language by more than 68 million persons living primarily on the island of Java.