flora

Substantiv

1. 1

   Plants considered as a group, especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc.

   Thirdly, I continue to attempt to interdigitate the taxa in our flora with taxa of the remainder of the world.

2. 2

   A book describing the plants of a country, region, time, etc.

   The garden is also involved in producing floras of North and Central America, Madagascar, and various countries in South America and Africa.

   He intended to publish a flora of the island, and drafted out a synonymic catalogue, into which he inserted from time to time elaborate descriptions drawn up from living specimens of the species which he was able to procure.

   Nowhere was the victory of Linnaeanism more complete than in Britain. When William Hudson's Flora Anglica, organized in the Linnaean manner, appeared in 1762, it displaced all previous floras.

3. 3

   The microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body.

   gut flora, intestinal flora

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Plural

floras, florae, floræ