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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun flora has 2 senses
- flora(n = noun.group) botany, vegetation - all the plant life in a particular region or period; "Pleistocene vegetation"; "the flora of southern California"; "the botany of China" is a kind of accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection
- flora(n = noun.tops) plant, plant life - (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion; Array is a kind of being, organism
is a member of biology, biota
has particulars: browse, brush, brushwood, coppice, copse, thicket, growth, bush, chaparral, scrub, stand, forest, wood, woods, shrubbery, garden, brier, brier patch, brierpatch, ground cover, groundcover
Antonym: fauna
has particulars: phytoplankton, microflora, crop, endemic, holophyte, non-flowering plant, plantlet, wilding, ornamental, pot plant, acrogen, apomict, aquatic, cryptogam, annual, biennial, perennial, escape, hygrophyte, neophyte, embryo, monocarp, monocarpic plant, monocarpous plant, sporophyte, gametophyte, houseplant, garden plant, tracheophyte, vascular plant, poisonous plant, aerophyte, air plant, epiphyte, epiphytic plant, rock plant, autophyte, autophytic plant, autotroph, autotrophic organism, myrmecophyte
has parts: cap, hood, plant part, plant structure
is a member of kingdom plantae, plant kingdom, plantae
Derived form adjective floral3
CIDE DICTIONARY
flora, n. [L., the goddess of flowers, from flos, floris, flower. See Flower.].
- The goddess of flowers and spring. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
flora, n. (pl. floras or florae)
1 the plants of a particular region, geological period, or environment.
2 a treatise on or list of these.
1 the plants of a particular region, geological period, or environment.
2 a treatise on or list of these.
Etymology
mod.L f. the name of the goddess of flowers f. L flos floris flower
THESAURUS
flora
Ceres, Cora, Demeter, Dionysos, Dionysus, Frey, Gaea, Gaia, Kore, Persephassa, Persephone, Pomona, Proserpina, Proserpine, Triptolemos, Triptolemus, corn god, fertility god, forest god, vegetation spiritROGET THESAURUS
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Vegetable
N vegetable, vegetable kingdom, flora, verdure, plant, tree, shrub, bush, creeper, herb, herbage, grass, annual, perennial, biennial, triennial, exotic, timber, forest, wood, woodlands, timberland, hurst, frith, holt, weald, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage, tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney, underwood, brushwood, scrub, boscage, bosk, ceja, chaparal, motte, arboretum, bush, jungle, prairie, heath, heather, fern, bracken, furze, gorse, whin, grass, turf, pasture, pasturage, turbary, sedge, rush, weed, fungus, mushroom, toadstool, lichen, moss, conferva, mold, growth, alfalfa, alfilaria, banyan, blow, blowth, floret, petiole, pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia, foliage, branch, bough, ramage, stem, tigella, spray, leaf, flower, blossom, bine, flowering plant, timber tree, fruit tree, pulse, legume, vegetable, vegetal, vegetive, vegitous, herbaceous, herbal, botanic, sylvan, silvan, arborary, arboreous, arborescent, arborical, woody, grassy, verdant, verdurous, floral, mossy, lignous, ligneous, wooden, leguminous, vosky, cespitose, turf-like, turfy, endogenous, exogenous, green-robed senators of mighty woods, this is the forest primeval.Botany
N botany, physiological botany, structural botany, systematic botany, phytography, phytology, phytotomy, vegetable physiology, herborization, dendrology, mycology, fungology, algology, flora, romona, botanic garden, hortus siccus, herbarium, herbal, botanist, herbist, herbarist, herbalist, herborist, herbarian, botanical, botanic.
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