Definition of flora Flora
/flÉËɹÊ/ - [floru] - Floâ¢ra
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| flora - (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion | ||
| plant, plant life | ||
| being, organism the state or fact of existing; "a point of view gradually coming into being"; "laws in existence for centuries" | ||
| kingdom plantae, plant kingdom, plantae (botany) the taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct plants | ||
| phytology, botany the branch of biology that studies plants | ||
| phytoplankton photosynthetic or plant constituent of plankton; mainly unicellular algae | ||
| cap, hood a tight-fitting headdress | ||
| microflora microscopic plants; bacteria are often considered to be microflora | ||
| crop the stock or handle of a whip | ||
| endemic a plant that is native to a certain limited area; "it is an endemic found only this island" | ||
| holophyte an organism that produces its own food by photosynthesis | ||
| non-flowering plant a plant that does not bear flowers | ||
| plantlet a young plant or a small plant | ||
| wilding an outrageous rampage usually involving sexual attacks by men on women | ||
| ornamental any plant grown for its beauty or ornamental value | ||
| pot plant a plant suitable for growing in a flowerpot (especially indoors) | ||
| acrogen any flowerless plant such as a fern (pteridophyte) or moss (bryophyte) in which growth occurs only at the tip of the main stem | ||
| apomict a plant that reproduces or is reproduced by apomixis | ||
| aquatic a plant that lives in or on water | ||
| cryptogam formerly recognized taxonomic group including all flowerless and seedless plants that reproduce by means of spores: ferns, mosses, algae, fungi | ||
| annual a reference book that is published regularly once every year | ||
| biennial (botany) a plant having a life cycle that normally takes two seasons from germination to death to complete; flowering biennials usually bloom and fruit in the second season | ||
| perennial (botany) a plant lasting for three seasons or more | ||
| escape the act of escaping physically; "he made his escape from the mental hospital"; "the canary escaped from its cage"; "his flight was an indication of his guilt" | ||
| hygrophyte a plant that grows in a moist habitat | ||
| neophyte a plant that is found in an area where it had not been recorded previously | ||
| embryo an animal organism in the early stages of growth and differentiation that in higher forms merge into fetal stages but in lower forms terminate in commencement of larval life | ||
| monocarp, monocarpic plant, monocarpous plant a plant that bears fruit once and dies | ||
| sporophyte the spore-producing individual or phase in the life cycle of a plant having alternation of generations | ||
| gametophyte the gamete-bearing individual or phase in the life cycle of a plant having alternation of generations | ||
| houseplant any of a variety of plants grown indoors for decorative purposes | ||
| garden plant any of a variety of plants usually grown especially in a flower or herb garden | ||
| tracheophyte, vascular plant green plant having a vascular system: ferns, gymnosperms, angiosperms | ||
| plant part, plant structure any part of a plant or fungus | ||
| poisonous plant a plant that when touched or ingested in sufficient quantity can be harmful or fatal to an organism | ||
| aerophyte, air plant, epiphyte, epiphytic plant plant that derives moisture and nutrients from the air and rain; usually grows on another plant but not parasitic on it | ||
| rock plant plant that grows on or among rocks or is suitable for a rock garden | ||
| autophyte, autophytic plant, autotroph, autotrophic organism plant capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances | ||
| myrmecophyte plant that affords shelter or food to ants that live in symbiotic relations with it | ||
| flora - all the plant life in a particular region or period; "Pleistocene vegetation"; "the flora of southern California"; "the botany of China" | ||
| vegetation, botany | ||
| fauna, zoology all the animal life in a particular region or period; "the fauna of China"; "the zoology of the Pliocene epoch" | ||
| aggregation, accumulation, assemblage, collection the act of accumulating | ||
| biota, biology all the plant and animal life of a particular region | ||
| plant life, flora, plant (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion | ||
| browse the act of feeding by continual nibbling | ||
| coppice, copse, thicket, brushwood, brush the wood from bushes or small branches; "they built a fire of brushwood" | ||
| growth vegetation that has grown; "a growth of trees"; "the only growth was some salt grass" | ||
| chaparral, scrub, bush the act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush and soap and water | ||
| stand a defensive effort; "the army made a final stand at the Rhone" | ||
| woods, forest, wood the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area | ||
| shrubbery a collection of shrubs growing together | ||
| garden a plot of ground where plants are cultivated | ||
| brier patch, brierpatch, brier tangled mass of prickly plants | ||
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Wiktionary 
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary ð
- flora (n.)
The goddess of flowers and spring. - flora (n.)
The complete system of vegetable species growing without cultivation in a given locality, region, or period; a list or description of, or treatise on, such plants.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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flora
The plant life characterizing a specific geographic region or environment. -
flora
Any living organism that synthesizes its food from inorganic substances, possesses cellulose cell walls, responds slowly and often permanently to a stimulus, lacks specialized sense organs and nervous system, and has no powers of locomotion. -
flora
A work systematically describing the flora of a particular region, listed by species and considered as a whole.\n(Source: RHW)
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary ð
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flora
flÅâ²ra, n. the collective plants or vegetable species of a region, country, or district: a work containing a descriptive enumeration of these.âadj. FlÅâ²ral, pertaining to Flora or to flowers: (bot.) containing the flower.âadv. FlÅâ²rally.ân. Floréal (flÅ-rÄ-alâ²), the 8th month of the French revolutionary calendar, April 20-May 20.âadj. FlÅâ²reÄted, decorated with floral ornament.ân. Floresâ²cence, a bursting into flower: (bot.) the time when plants flower.âadj. Floresâ²cent, bursting into flowers.ân. FlÅâ²ret (bot.), the flowers of any small and closely crowded inflorescence which resembles at first sight a single flowerâe.g. composites, teasels, grasses, &c.âadj. FlÅriculâ²tural.âns. FlÅâ²riculture, the culture of flowers or plants; FlÅriculâ²turist, a florist.âadj. Florâ²id, bright in colour: flushed with red: containing flowers of rhetoric or lively figures: richly ornamental.âadv. Florâ²idly.ân. Florâ²idness.âadjs. FlÅrifâ²erous, bearing or producing flowers; FlÅâ²riform, flower-shaped.âns. FlÅrilÄâ²gium, an anthology or collection of choice extracts; Florâ²ist, a cultivator of flowers: one who writes an account of plants. [L. Flora, the goddess of flowers.]
Wikipedia 
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In botany, "flora" (plural: floras or florae) has two meanings.
The first meaning refers to all plant life in an area or time period (especially the naturally occurring or indigenous plant life).
The second meaning refers to a "book or other work" which describes the plant species in an area or time period, with the aim of allowing identification.
The term flora comes from Latin language Flora, the goddess of flowers in Roman mythology. The corresponding term for animal life is fauna.
Plants are grouped into floras based on region, period, special environment, or climate. Regions can be geographically distinct habitats like mountain vs. flatland. Floras can mean plant life of an historic era as in "fossil flora".
Bacterial organisms are sometimes included in a flora. Other times, the terms "bacterial flora" and "plant flora" are used separately. -
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Flora is plant life as distinct from animal life (fauna); or, a book or other work that describes the plant species in a particular area or region.
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