flora
flora Lexical Profile
flora Game Scores & Validity
• noun
The plants of a particular region, habitat, or geological period, considered collectively.
"The island's native flora includes rare orchids and ancient ferns found nowhere else on Earth."
The community of symbiotic microorganisms, especially bacteria and fungi, that naturally inhabit a particular organ or surface of the body.
"Taking a broad-spectrum antibiotic can temporarily disrupt your healthy intestinal flora."
A systematic treatise, book, or catalog describing and listing the plant species of a particular region or period.
"She packed an illustrated field flora of the Pacific Northwest in her backpack to help identify wildflowers along the trail."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed from Latin Flora, the Roman goddess of flowers and spring, derived from flos ('flower'). It was introduced as a scientific collective term for regional plant life by Carl Linnaeus in the 18th century.