flora
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Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
flora (countable and uncountable, plural floras or florae or floræ)
- Plants considered as a group, especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc.
- 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page viii:
- Thirdly, I continue to attempt to interdigitate the taxa in our flora with taxa of the remainder of the world.
- A book describing the plants of a country, region, time, etc.
- 1999, J. G. Baker, Flora of Mauritius and the Seychelles:
- 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.
- 2000, Daniel R. Headrick, When Information Came of Age, page 26:
- 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.
- The microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body.
- 1920, Robert L. Tweed, A Study of the Effect of Milk Upon the Bacterial Flora of the Intestinal Tract:
- 1947, Adelaide Evangeline Evenson, The Intestinal Flora of Laboratory Animals and Its Modification by Diet and Drugs:
- 1977, Betty H. K. Dee, The Aerobic Bacterial Flora of the Intestinal Tract of Marine Fishes:
- 1977, United States Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs, Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs, page 191:
- The host effects upon the flora of both the small intestine and the large intestine must be examined.
- 2003 December 11, Moselio Schaechter, Desk Encyclopedia of Microbiology, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 520:
- Approximately 3% of healthy adults harbor C. difficile in the intestinal tract. […] In contrast, the flora of the cecum is predominantly gram negative, with Bacteroides and Selenomonas being the major constituents.
- 2013 March 31, Chetana Vaishnavi, Infections of the Gastrointestinal System, JP Medical Ltd, →ISBN, page 5:
- […] Lactobacillus, Pseudomonas, Bifidobacterium, Eubacterium, Peptococcus, Peptostreptococcus, Bacteroides and Spirochetes that characterize the flora of the large intestine.
Synonyms
- (microorganisms): microflora
Hypernyms
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
Translations
plants considered as a group
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a book describing the plants of a country etc.
the microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body
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Anagrams
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin Flōra (goddess of flowers), from flōs (“blossom”). First attested in the 20th century.
Pronunciation
Noun
flora f (uncountable)
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
- florístic
Related terms
Further reading
- “flora” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Etymology
Noun
flora
Declension
Declension of flora
References
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
flora f (plural flora's)
- flora (plant life, in particular the plant living or endemic in a certain area)
- Synonym: plantenwereld
- flora (plant book)
- Synonyms: floragids, plantenboek
Derived terms
- darmflora
- duinflora
- floradistrict
- floragids
- stadsflora
- veldflora
Related terms
Descendants
- Afrikaans: flora
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
flora (accusative singular floran, plural floraj, accusative plural florajn)
Etymology
From Dutch flora, from Latin Flōra (goddess of flowers), flōs (“blossom”), from Proto-Italic *flōs, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃-s (“flower, blossom”), from *bʰleh₃- (“to bloom”).
Pronunciation
Noun
flora (first-person possessive floraku, second-person possessive floramu, third-person possessive floranya)
- flora:
- (botany) plants considered as a group, especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc.
- (botany) a book describing the plants of a country, region, time, etc.
- (microbiology) the microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body.
Further reading
- “flora” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Pronunciation
Noun
flora f (plural flore)
Derived terms
Anagrams
Etymology
Noun
flora m (definite singular floraen, indefinite plural floraer, definite plural floraene)
References
Etymology
Noun
flora m (definite singular floraen, indefinite plural floraer or floraar, definite plural floraene or floraane)
References
- “flora” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Pronunciation
Noun
flōra
- inflection of flōr:
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin Flōra.
Pronunciation
Noun
flora f
- flora (plants considered as a group)
- Synonyms: roślinność, szata roślinna
- Antonym: fauna
Declension
Declension of flora
Derived terms
nouns
Further reading
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
flora f (plural floras)
- flora (plants of a region considered as a group)
- flora (yhe microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body)
- Flora intestinal. ― Gut flora.
Related terms
Further reading
- “flora”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
Pronunciation
Noun
flȏra f (Cyrillic spelling фло̑ра)
Declension
Declension of flora
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin Flōra (“Flora (goddess of flowers)”).
Noun
flora f (plural floras)
Etymology 2
Verb
flora
- inflection of florar:
Further reading
- “flora”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28
Pronunciation
Noun
flora c
Declension
Declension of flora
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