flora
IPA: fɫˈɔrʌ
noun
- Plants considered as a group, especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc.
- A book describing the plants of a country, region, time, etc.
- The microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body.
- (Roman mythology) the goddess of flowers, nature and spring; she is also the wife of Favonius and the mother of Karpos. She is the Roman counterpart of Chloris.
- (astronomy) 8 Flora, a main-belt asteroid.
- A female given name from Latin.
- A surname.
- A municipality of Norway.
- A city in Illinois.
- A resort in Suriname.
- A municipality of the Philippines.
- A town in Indiana; named for founder John Flora.
- A town in Mississippi; named for early resident Flora Mann Jones.
- A village in Norway.
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Examples of "flora" in Sentences
- The flora is distinct from that on adjacent uplands.
- The principal aspect in the analysis of vascular flora is the high degree of endemism.
- The native flora is characterized by low fire tolerance and poor adaptation to herbivore resistance.
- Probiotic soap will optimize healthy skin flora and help remove harmful pathogens as well as dirt and sweat.
- About 9% of the extant flora is hummingbird pollinated and it is estimated that around 47% are wind pollinated.
- An indicator of the degradation of the flora is the allochthonous species that have established themselves in the wild, already accounting for 42%.
- Defined by a almost subtropical temperatures usually found much farther north, this region is rich in flora and fauna that is uncharacteristic of its surrounding regions.
- One of the most interesting aspects of the explorations of the islands, from the point of view of the flora, is that since 1869 the information relating to the flora has been provided by only two botanists.
- These special places come in many forms: botanical gardens, arboretums, college and university gardens, glass-covered conservatories, nature centers, even zoos, where you may find flora from the habitat of the fauna on display.
- The link between the Ecotron assemblages and the data they used to calibrate the axis was weak (they used the “closest approach to a community which often contains many of them” and modified the range upwards because “a substantial fraction of the potential arable weed flora is already extinct”).
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