Hence, if the explanation which I have adopted of the latter is correct, the ceremony of the death and resurrection of Adonis must also have been a dramatic representation of the decay and revival of plant life.
What we found most astonishing in our three-days journey from the llanos to the crest of the Cordilleras was the extraordinary number and diversity of forms of plant life.
In connection with the myths of plant life may be noticed that curious species of exotic plants, commonly known as "sensitive plants," and which have generally attracted considerable interest from their irritability when touched.
If, therefore, one of the most eminent of recent scientific botanists confessed his inability to explain this strange peculiarity, we may excuse the savage if he regard it as another proof of a distinct personality in plant life.
Scott Elliott, in his "Romance of Plant Life," deals with this subject.
Whether this is so or not, plant life on the mountains is almost entirely protected from the destroying hands of men with their ploughs and scythes, as well as from many grazing animals.
In short, Alpine vegetation presents us with nearly every type of plant life of northern and temperate climes, chastened in tone and diminished in size.
It has been suggested that the story of his death and resurrection was acted as a pageant to symbolize the revival of plant life in spring.
The death and resurrection of Adonis a mythical expression for the annual decay and revival of plant life.
Animal life, standing high up in the circle, is not capable of extracting its nutriment from the soil, but must take the more complex foods which have been manufactured by plant life.
The food cycle would be as incomplete without the agency of bacterial life as it would be without the agency of plant life.
Now these compounds are not ordinarily within the reach of plant life.
The gas is sometimes withdrawn and the deposit produced in large part by the action of algae and other humble forms of plant life.
Life of the Mesozoic =Plant life of the Triassic and Jurassic.
Stem of a Mesozoic Cycad] =Plant life of the Cretaceous.
Respecting the nutrition of plant life, it is obvious that, like animals, they must feed and breathe to maintain life.
Nothing, for instance, has deadened the interest of children in plant life so much as the study of botany.
True stories of plant life can be, and should be, as interesting as any other stories.
The soil having been put into a condition favorable to plant life, the seeding and the use of commercial fertilizers should proceed as usual.
The important point is to have the soil friendly to plant life when a sod is to be made.
Probably the lime is very rarely deficient as a food for plants, and will be considered later only as a means of making soils friendly to plant life.
Berkeley forsook the serious study of zoological subjects, and devoted the whole of his leisure time to the lower forms of plant life.
For the last fifty years he has devoted his attention to the physiology of plant life in every phase of its development.
A knowledge of even a small part of such a science opens up a rich field of inquiry involving a concept of plant life of greater interest than mere bread and butter.
It is a possession beyond all price, this ability to take from the soil and air and water simple chemical substances and under the magic of sunlight transform them into the wonderful plant life of the world.
The latter will be discussed last because it is the most important of all the phases of plant life.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plant life" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
