Sentence examples for two great groups from inspiring English sources

The class is one of the two great groups of living fishes, the other being the osteichthians, or bony fishes.

Monocotyledon, byname monocot, one of the two great groups of flowering plants, or angiosperms, the other being the dicotyledons (dicots).

In the two great groups of seed plants, gymnosperms and angiosperms, the sporophyte is the dominant phase in the life cycle, as it is also in the vascular cryptogams; the gametophytes are microscopic parasites on the sporophytes.

About 1960, resurrecting and embellishing an idea originally conceived two decades earlier by French marine biologist Edouard Chatton but universally overlooked, Roger Yate Stanier, Cornelius B. van Niel, and their colleagues formally proposed the division of all living things into two great groups, the prokaryotes and the eukaryotes.

Nathan Söderblom, a Swedish archbishop who devoted much energy to problems of classification, accepted the division of higher religions into two great groups but used a varied terminology that pointed to some of the characteristics of the two types of religion.

"It must have been obvious to any one interested in natural history that the insects met with during a walk in summer may be arranged in two great groups:... difficult to find... and... startling colours and conspicuous attitudes" The association of warning with "nauseous or dangerous" animals is identified.

The diversity of soil types was high, as a total of eight great groups were sampled.

He distinguished one great group of religions that exhibits extreme partiality for one over against the other.

The drift into corruption and excess, and the gathering storm of retribution, form the book's meat.Undoubtedly, it could be better: it would have been useful to read much more about the beliefs and membership of Indonesia's two great Muslim groups, Muhammadiyah and Nahdlatul Ulama, each of which claims tens of millions of followers.

Seven soil great groups account for nearly two-thirds (65%) of the soils: Calciustolls, Torriorthents, Dystrudepts, Haplargids, Haplocalcids, Haplustolls, and Argixerolls.

EIGHTH BLACKBIRD AND THE OBERLIN CONTEMPORARY MUSIC ENSEMBLE Two great cutting-edge groups — one formed at Oberlin, the other still there — will sound great together in a concert at the Kitchen devoted to music by two American legends, Steve Reich and Frederic Rzewski.