Word Finder - abound

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To be full to overflowing.

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To be wealthy.

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To be highly productive.

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To be present or available in large numbers; to be plentiful.

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Wild animals abound wherever man does not stake his claim.

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To revel in.

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To be copiously supplied

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The wilderness abounds in traps.

Ducks, cranes and other aquatic birds abound in the delta.

Excellent fish of many varieties abound in the Australian seas and in many of the rivers.

Speculation continued to abound at Bird Song.

Insects abound, especially Coleoptera.

His sermons especially abound in quotations and allusions, which have the air of spontaneously suggesting themselves, but which must sometimes have baffled his hearers.

The surface is rocky and broken, but streams abound, and there are various parts of considerable fertility.

Sheep abound in the more temperate regions, and goats are universally met with; both of these animals are used as beasts of burden in the mountains of Tibet.

In Yemen and Hadramut especially these ruins abound, and in some cases inscriptions seem to be still in situ.

His pages abound in fine and acute insight.

Uttered formulas abound; yet they are not forms of address, but rather the self-sufficient pronouncements of the magician's fiat.

Salt springs exist in the neighbourhood, and to the south there are two small lakes, Zonar and Rincon, which abound in fish.

The dehesas or moorlands abound in game, and fish are plentiful in all the streams. The mineral resources of the province, which are considerable, were known to some extent to the ancients.

Fish of excellent quality and in great quantities abound on the coast.

Insects abound, the greatest pest being the tsetse fly, common in the low veld.

Swimming, fishing, and boating opportunities abound all over this area.

The lower ranges of the hills abound in animal life.

Fremont is situated in a good agricultural region; oil and natural gas abound in the vicinity; and the city has various manufactures, including boilers, electro-carbons, cutlery, bricks, agricultural implements, stoves and ranges, safety razors, carriage irons, sash, doors, blinds, furniture, beet sugar, canned vegetables, malt extract, garters and suspenders.

In the forest regions of eastern Washington the underbrush is light, but grasses and a great variety of flowering plants abound.

They abound in Australia and Africa.

Alexandre Seiler in 1854 that its fame as one of the chief tourist resorts in the Alps was laid, for tourists abound only where there are good inns.

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Orchids of countless varieties abound.

Of insects there are relatively few kinds; but ants, beetles and mosquitoes abound.

Mineral springs also abound, and those of Ilidze, near Serajevo, have been utilized since the days of the Romans; but the majority remained unexploited at the beginning of the 20th century.

In fact, Hebraisms abound throughout this book.

Water is scarce and brackish, and is chiefly found at the bottom of low ranges of hills, which abound in some parts; and the inhabitants of the extensive sandy tracts suffer greatly from the want of it.

Many species of indigenous palms abound, and in places the forests are indescribably luxuriant.

Along the coast the best known fisheries are among the Abrolhos islands and in the shallow waters of Espirito Santo, where the garoupa, pargo and vermelho (species of Serranus) abound in great numbers.

Insects abound in great numbers, the most troublesome and destructive being the tick (Ixodes natalensis), which infests the pasturage, and the white ant (Termes mordax).

The book was undoubtedly the precursor of the famous Books of Sentences of Abelard's own pupil Peter Lombard and others, and of all the Summae theologiae with which the church was presently to abound.

Venomous snakes abound.

Turtle abound on the coast, and fish, of which some kinds, as the tetrodons (globe-fish), are poisonous, especially at certain seasons.

In the Yemen mountains the wal, a wild goat with massive horns, similar to the Kashmir ibex, is found; monkeys also abound.

But the forests of Huanuco and Huamalios abound in species yielding the grey bark of commerce, which is rich in cinchonine, an alkaloid efficacious as a febrifuge, though inferior to quinine.

There abound "beautifully laid out gardens, public and private, and solidly constructed roads, some of them bordered with bamboos and other delicately-fronded trees, and fringed with the luxuriant growth of semi-tropical vegetation."

The environs abound in numerous charming Alpine excursions.

Spiders abound, from a giant species to one of the minutest dimensions, and the tree-bug is always ready to make a destructive lodgment in any sickly tree-stem.

Excellent fish abound in the Mare Piccolo, ninety-three different species being found.

Leopards abound in the Hah valley; deer everywhere, some of them of a very large species.

Pteropod ooze is merely a local variety of globigerina ooze in which the comparatively large but very delicate spindleshaped shells of pteropods happen to abound.

The mountain ranges to the north of the province abound with coal, notably at Chai-tang, Tai-gan-shan, Miao-gan-ling, and Fu-tao in the Si-shan or Western Hills.

Oysters, clams, and shrimp abound along the coast, and there are more than 500 species of mollusks in the state.

Salamanders, toads and frogs are numerous, and crocodiles abound.

Mineral springs abound in the neighbourhood.

The original varieties of trees still abound, though in less numbers, on lands illadapted to agriculture, and in the Adirondack and Catskill Mountains, where the state has established forest preserves, and the Forest, Fish and Game Commissioner began reforesting in 1901, principally with pine, spruce and larch.

Reptilian remains abound; plants are also plentiful.

Limestone, brownstone and brick-clay also abound in the vicinity; and besides mines and quarries, the city has extensive manufactories of iron, steel, chains, and nuts and bolts.

Geese abound particularly round Leipzig and in Upper Lusatia, poultry about Bautzen.

The islands are highly cultivated; deer and other game abound, and trout are plentiful in the mountain streams. A majority of the inhabitants are Christians.