The bladder ferns are a dainty, rock-loving family partial to a limestone soil. From Wordnik.com. [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference
You have to see what ensues when these two rock-loving funny men decide to face off. From Wordnik.com. [WATCH: Conan Curses, Challenges Jack Black To A Guitar-Off] Reference
Mostly small, rock-loving plants, usually rather chaffy, at least at the base, and growing in tufts. From Wordnik.com. [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference
Unlike most of the rock-loving ferns this species is not partial to limestone, but grows on other rocks as well. From Wordnik.com. [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference
Growing up in Los Angeles, he struggles to find his place as a middle-class, hard rock-loving, African-American teenager. From Wordnik.com. [Spike Lee Shoots Broadway] Reference
Some of the rock-loving ferns in dry places are known as "resurrection" ferns, reviving after their leaves have turned sere and brown. From Wordnik.com. [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference
I dragged my classic rock-loving friends over to watch it; they claimed indifference, though to this day I still think they were faking it. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Sachs: What Was Your Michael Jackson Moment?] Reference
I didn't mean to sound critical; I have some minerals at the house which I got from a German museum through that outfit, when I was on my rock-loving bug years ago. From Wordnik.com. [Through The Eye Of A Needle]
Like many other rock-loving species, it produces spores in abundance, having no other effective means of spreading, and its fertile fronds are much more numerous than the sterile ones, and begin to fruit when very small. From Wordnik.com. [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference
Since we don't have a classical music station, I put Zeta on my radio preset and turned that on when I had rock-loving people in the car or when the other radio stations had commercials on, which happened enough that I actually spent more time listening to Zeta than most of you would believe. From Wordnik.com. [(South Florida readers only) What happened to Zeta?] Reference
Rough is the rock-loving growth of your canyons, and only. From Wordnik.com. [Songs out of Doors] Reference
But for a group of rebellious, rock-loving disc jockeys, such restrictions were merely a hurdle. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
I MAY be from the heavy rock-loving Welsh Valleys and have skin the same pallid appearance as a pint of milk, but I still know the funk when I hear it. From Wordnik.com. [WalesOnline - Home] Reference
In our long hot seasons, the alpine-garden may be expected to be dormant during much of the summer, unless other rock-loving plants are colonized in it. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)] Reference
The fact that sheep and goats are specially mountain and rock-loving animals may be explained by their being a later modification, since the divided hoof once formed is evidently well adapted to secure a firm footing on rugged and precipitous ground, although it could hardly have been first developed in such localities. From Wordnik.com. [Darwinism (1889)] Reference
In Northern Africa, again, there are several species of native wild goats, as the Jaela in Egypt, and the Walie of the African-Arab countries; but in South Africa no indigenous wild goats have been observed -- their place in that region being supplied by their near congeners the Klipspringers, and other rock-loving antelopes. From Wordnik.com. [Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys] Reference
The Rotters’ Club about the prog rock-loving Philip Chase will know, Coe can write with great wit and perception about musical obsession. From Wordnik.com. [Your Rock 'n' Roll Lifestyle] Reference
My rock-loving boys will go nuts over those. From Wordnik.com. [Stone Soap Purchase] Reference
A wild rose or rock-loving columbine. From Wordnik.com. [History of American Literature] Reference
A wild rose, or rock-loving columbine. From Wordnik.com. [The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton] Reference
A wild-rose, or rock-loving columbine. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Harvest] Reference
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