Sentence examples similar to pebble mound from inspiring English sources

Australia's second largest national park at 6,274sqkm, Karijini is home to kangaroos, echidnas, wallabies, legless lizards, goannas (a large lizard native to Australia), non-venomous Pilbara olive pythons and rare pebble-mound mice – specialists in carefully arranging small stones to create rodent rockeries.

The central pebble-mound mouse also occurs in the region, and other mammal species including the Forrest's mouse, desert mouse and short-beaked echidna have been predicted by biologists to occur on the station.

They now have just a mound of pebbles which can be renewed from time to time.

Rootshad blistered the sea-pebble paving into a mound like a verruca.I thought of the black ceramic bird my mother notchedin the center of her pies, whose yellow beak cracked the crust.

(A telltale sign of trapping is a mound of these pebbles dumped by the side of the road).

Other species decorate the mound surface with small pebbles or dead vegetation, which can work as heat collectors or as radiation reflectors.

Raking the mound will remove any pebbles or chunks of grass.

A pine dresser and trunks and boxes of various sizes provide troves for treasured possessions, while shelves and window ledges have been commandeered for kitchen utensils, teapots, novels, picture books and mounds of pebbles gathered on the seashore.

A mass of pebbles might surround a dish, while flowers top a mound of dried strawberries, pears and lotus fruit.

I love to submerge my hand in a mound of shelled beans, letting them trickle through my fingers like the cool, moist pebbles on a rocky beach.

Pan Pan theatre company's production follows his lead, placing a sculpture of an enormous wooden skull centre stage, wedged into mounds of grey pebbles.