silversword
IPA: sˈɪɫvɝsɔrd
noun
- Any member of the genus Argyroxiphium of flowering plants native to Hawaii, with long, narrow leaves sometimes covered in silvery hairs.
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Examples of "silversword" in Sentences
- Adaptive radiation and the silversword alliance.
- Originally it was a picture of a Hawaiian silversword.
- This grouping is often referred to as the silversword alliance.
- I'm not much of a plant person, although I know the silversword researchers.
- A bit lower is the area where the endemic Mauna Kea silversword can be found.
- The entryway features a tiled drinking fountain with a Silversword tiled motif.
- The two heroes manage to survive, and fly to Hilo to face Silversword and Pele.
- Silversword manages to escape the superheroes by causing the museum to collapse.
- She was thinking of how sad life was for the silversword and, then, of course how ridiculous that notion was.
- Other organisms, like Hawaiian silversword plants or Galapagos finches, come up frequently because they're fantastic examples of evolution happening out in the "real world".
- On the highest peaks, cold and dry conditions create alpine deserts inhabited by silversword (Agryroxiphium sandwicense), Dubautia spp., and other alpine-adapted plants, as well as alpine-adapted invertebrate species.
- And the Haleakala silversword, a bizarre long-leafed plant that blooms with hundreds of magenta flowers once every 50 years, is on the ropes: an ant that sneaked in from Argentina kills the native yellow-faced bees that pollinate the silversword.
- Thanks largely to their pioneering and tireless efforts in these areas, this Park remains a world-class biological jewel where people can still experience a mind-bending diversity of unique ecosystems and species such as the charismatic nene goose, hawksbill sea turtle, and Mauna Loa silversword.
- Bonnie often paused to take photographs and marvel at the rich, dramatic reds and browns of the soils, the intense frosty-white of the silversword that thrived impossibly in the harsh environment, the sudden and dramatic shift to soft dusk as clouds billowed over the rim of the volcano and enveloped them.
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