lowlands

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Thus the gentians of the lowlands are adapted to bees, those of the high alps to butterflies only; and while most species of Rhinanthus (a genus to which our common "yellow rattle" belongs) are bee-flowers, one high alpine species (R. alpinus) has been also adapted for fertilisation by butterflies only.

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  • The natives of the lowlands were an indolent lot, as often as not scorning other garb for xanaps, sandals made of tapir hide held on with coarse henequin rope, and long sleeveless jackets called huipils. —  082 - The Dagger In The Sky
  • But what is a bummer for the lowlands is a lift for the mountains. —  Blogger KING
  • I have a horrific vision of Britain in which the lowlands are all New Jersey and only the national parks, the trust and the MoD are saving the uplands. —  Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph
  • I hunted up everything in the way of a souvenir which I had still from those days ten years before when I had parted from Lorand, even down to that last scrap of paper,[70] which now occupied my every thought Footnote 70: The paper of Madame Bálnokházy's letter which was used for the fatal lot-drawing It would have been labor lost on my part to tell the ladies how bad the roads in the lowlands are at that time of year, that in any case Lorand would come to them a day later. —  Debts of Honor
  • For the lowlands, corn, grass, and potatoes are the best crops; for the highlands, the small grains, sorghum, beans, etc. But provide as much vegetable matter for the highlands as your lowlands possess, and make the sum of mixture in both alike, and your highlands will grow corn, grass, and potatoes as well as the low CHARLES VAN METER, SPRINGFIELD, MO.--What is the best work on Grape Culture? —  Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside
 

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