flora
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From Latin Flōra (goddess of flowers).
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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, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →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.
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- (microorganisms): microflora
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin Flōra (goddess of flowers), from flōs (“blossom”). First attested in the 20th century.
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flora f (uncountable)
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- “flora” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Crimean Tatar edit
Etymology edit
From Latin Flōra (Roman goddess of flowers).
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flora
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singular | plural | |
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nominative | flora | floralar |
genitive | floranıñ | floralarnıñ |
dative | florağa | floralarğa |
accusative | floranı | floralarnı |
locative | florada | floralarda |
ablative | floradan | floralardan |
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Borrowed from Latin flōra, from Flōra.
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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
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- Afrikaans: flora
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flora (accusative singular floran, plural floraj, accusative plural florajn)
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
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”).
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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 edit
- “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.
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flora f (plural flore)
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Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
From Latin Flora, goddess of flowers.
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flora m (definite singular floraen, indefinite plural floraer, definite plural floraene)
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Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
From Latin Flora, goddess of flowers.
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flora m (definite singular floraen, indefinite plural floraer or floraar, definite plural floraene or floraane)
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- “flora” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish edit
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Learned borrowing from Latin Flōra.
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flora f
- flora (plants considered as a group)
- Synonyms: roślinność, szata roślinna
- Antonym: fauna
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flora f (plural floras)
- flora (plants of a region considered as a group)
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flȏra f (Cyrillic spelling фло̑ра)
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Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Latin Flōra (“Flora (goddess of flowers)”).
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flora f (plural floras)
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flora
- inflection of florar:
Further reading edit
- “flora”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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flora c
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Declension of flora | ||||
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Nominative | flora | floran | floror | flororna |
Genitive | floras | florans | florors | florornas |
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰleh₃-
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- Rhymes:Dutch/oːraː
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- eo:Botany
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- id:Botany
- id:Microbiology
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- nb:Botany
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- nn:Botany
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- pl:Plants
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- Rhymes:Spanish/oɾa
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