Word Finder - plentiful

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Existing in large number or ample amount.

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She accumulated a plentiful collection of books.

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Yielding abundance; fruitful.

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Some years, the tree is a plentiful source of apples.

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Lavish; profuse; prodigal

The sky was dark, the stars plentiful and bright.

Turtles and tortoises are plentiful on the coast.

Fruits also are plentiful, both wild and cultivated.

East Africa is rich in all kinds of antelope, and the elephant, rhinoceros and hippopotamus are still plentiful in parts.

Trout and salmon are plentiful in the river.

But despite all these measures the men, who had till then constituted an army, flowed all over the wealthy, deserted city with its comforts and plentiful supplies.

Vermont marble is the best and most plentiful in the United States.

Under such conditions we might expect to find an extremely plentiful animal population, one as rich as that.

While there can be no doubt that the luxuriance of Japans flora is due to rich soil, to high temperature and to rainfall not only plentiful but well distributed over the whole year, the wealth and variety of her trees and shrubs must be largell the result of immigration.

Throughout Britain, as a rule, this species is one of the most plentiful birds, and is found at all seasons of the year.

The water-works and electric-lighting plant are owned and operated by the Territorial government, and to the plentiful water-supply is partly due the luxuriant vegetation of the city.

Frogs of many kinds are plentiful, the brilliant green frogs being especially conspicuous and noisy.

Fruits and vegetables are plentiful, and there are large herds of buffaloes, goats and sheep. Silkworms are reared.

A number of glands on the interior of the pitcher secrete a plentiful fluid which has digestive properties.

Parakeets are plentiful in the montes, and the lagoons swarm with waterfowl.

Fish and game are plentiful, and the silkworm is bred in the warmer districts.

Much buying might take place when stocks were scanty, with the result that prices would be needlessly forced up; and when stocks were plentiful demand might be weak and prices, therefore, be unduly depressed.

Game is plentiful, and the fisheries on the coast are excellent.

Oranges are often plentiful, also pine-apples, guavas, custard-apples, mangoes and bananas.

The baba or cat fish and the yellow fish are plentiful in the rivers and the trout has been acclimatized.

Game is plentiful and the rivers swarm with fish.

Game, birds of prey and fish are plentiful.

Among trees, stunted pines, dwarf oaks, poplars, willows and the cypress are fairly plentiful.

Under the protection of a game commission which was created in 1895, of some game preserves which have been established by this commission, and of various laws affecting wild animals and birds, the numbers of Virginia deer, black bear, rabbits, ruffed grouse, quail and wild turkeys have increased until in some of the wilder sections they are quite plentiful, while the numbers of weasels, minks, lynx and foxes have been diminished.

Perch, sunfish, trout, bass, pike and pickerel abound in many of the streams. Yellow perch are especially plentiful in the lakes on the Pocono plateau.

Pike-perch and a few blue pike are taken in the Susquehanna, where shad are no longer plentiful since work was begun on McCall's Ferry dam, and in 1908 the entire catch for the river was valued at about $20,000, but in the Delaware there are valuable shad 'and herring fisheries.

His successors, Patrick Gordon and George Thomas, under the proprietorship of John, Thomas and Richard Penn, continued Keith's popular policy of issuing a plentiful paper currency; but with Thomas the assembly renewed its old struggle, refusing to grant him a salary or supplies because of his efforts to force the colony into supporting the Spanish War.

The researches of Prjevalsky demonstrate that gold is plentiful in northern and eastern Tibet.

During this time he found plentiful leisure to write a series of works on political philosophy, such as the Nouveaux essais de politique et de philosophie (Paris, 1824).

With regard to natural products the country has few worth mentioning; minerals are found in the Lebanon, but not in any quantity; traces of amber-digging have been discovered on the coast; and the purple shell (murex trunculus and brandaris) is still plentiful.

The bird was evidently plentiful down to the very seaboard of.

The life of many lichens thus consists of alternating periods of activity when moisture is plentiful, and completely suspended animation under conditions of dryness.

Pruning is a very important operation in the fruit garden, its object being twofold - (i) to give form to the tree, and (2) to induce the free production of flower buds as the precursors of a plentiful crop of fruit.

The forests are well stocked with game, deer, chamois (in the Alps), wild boars, capercailzie, grouse, pheasants, &c. being plentiful.

Roebuck and deer are found in a wild state in Gelderland and Overysel, foxes are plentiful in the dry wooded regions on the borders of the country, and hares and rabbits in the dunes and other sandy stretches.

Storks are plentiful in summer and might almost be considered the most characteristic feature of the prevailing landscape.

Where it is plentiful, it is better to supply the second meadow directly from the river, or by a continuation of the first main conductor.

Wild geese and ducks, grouse, partridges, snipe, woodcock, quails, widgeons and teal are plentiful all over the country, and in recent years preserves have been largely stocked with pheasants.

There was, indeed, plentiful need for some show of concession to Libera sentiment, if a union of hearts was to be established between the South and North Germans.

There were soon plentiful signs of where this enemy was to be sought.

Soon afterwards as money became more plentiful the scope of work was extended; the production of the folio volumes continued, but the five sections were subdivided and in each of these a series of quarto volumes was issued.

Between Georgian Bay and Ottawa the winters are less cold, but usually with a plentiful snowfall; while the summers are warm and sometimes even hot.

The mountainous region is covered with primeval forest, in which timber and valuable woods for cabinet-making are plentiful.

Animals are plentiful, including the great pachyderms and carnivora.

Without being very plentiful anywhere, it is generally distributed in suitable localities throughout its range - those localities being such as afford it a sufficient supply of food, consisting during the greater part of the year of insects, which it diligently seeks on the boles and larger limbs of old trees; but in autumn and winter it feeds on nuts, beech-mast, the stones of yew-berries and hard seeds.

Crocodile stories, not all fabulous, are plentiful, and begin with one of the oldest writings in the world, the book of Job.

Their fertility is due to a plentiful supply of water furnished by a sandstone bed 300 to 500 ft.

Fish are plentiful in the Nile, both scaled and without scales.

Of game-birds the most plentiful are sandgrouse, quail (a bird of passage) and snipe.

A pillar of earth before the dam is called the Bride of the Nile, and Arab historians relate that this was substituted, at the Moslem conquest, for a virgin whom it was the custom annually to sacrifice, to ensure a plentiful inundation.