flora

See also: Flora, flóra, flóra-, and Flóra

English

Etymology

From Latin Flōra (goddess of flowers).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈflɔː.ɹə/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɔːrə

Noun

flora (countable and uncountable, plural floras or florae or floræ)

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. The microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body

   intestinal flora, gut flora

Synonyms

• (microorganisms): microflora

Derived terms

• dendroflora
• ethnoflora
• gut flora
• intestinal flora

Coordinate terms

• fauna

Translations

plants considered as a group

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 植物群 (zh) (zhíwùqún)

• Czech: květena f, flóra f
• Esperanto: plantaro, flaŭro
• Finnish: kasvisto (fi)
• French: flore (fr) f
• Galician: flora (gl) f
• Georgian: ფლორა (plora)
• German: Flora (de) f, Pflanzenreich (de) n, Pflanzenwelt (de) f
• Greek: χλωρίδα (el) f (chlorída)
• Hungarian: flóra (hu)
• Icelandic: flóra f, gróðurríki n
• Italian: flora (it) f

• Japanese: 植物相 (しょくぶつそう, shokubutsusō)
• Lithuanian: augalija f
• Maori: ngāi tipu
• Persian: پوشش گیاهی‎, گیاگان‎ (fa) (giyāgān)
• Polish: flora (pl) f
• Portuguese: flora (pt) f
• Romanian: floră (ro) f
• Russian: фло́ра (ru) f (flóra)
• Spanish: flora (es) f
• Swedish: flora (sv) c
• Tagalog: talahalmanan
• Volapük: planem

a book describing the plants of a country etc.

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 植物志 (zhíwùzhì)

• Finnish: kasvio (fi)
• French: flore (fr) f
• Galician: flora (gl) f

• Hungarian: flóra (hu)
• Icelandic: flóra f
• Japanese: 植物誌 (しょくぶつし, shokubutsushi)
• Russian: фло́ра (ru) f (flóra)
• Swedish: flora (sv) c

the microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body

• Estonian: floora
• Finnish: floora (fi), mikrofloora, mikrobisto
• French: flore intestinale (fr) f
• Galician: flora (gl) f
• German: Flora (de) f
• Hungarian: flóra (hu)

• Icelandic: flóra f
• Italian: flora (it) f
• Persian: فلور طبیعی‎
• Romanian: floră (ro) f, floră microbială f, floră bacterială, floră intestinală f
• Russian: фло́ра (ru) f (flóra)
• Swedish: flora (sv) c

Anagrams

• folar

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈflo.ɾə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈflo.ɾa/

Noun

flora f (uncountable)

1. flora

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Crimean Tatar

Etymology

From Latin Flōra (Roman goddess of flowers).

Noun

flora (more common word is nebatat)

1. flora

Declension

Declension of flora

nominative	flora
genitive	floranıñ
dative	florağa
accusative	floranı
locative	florada
ablative	floradan

References

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎^[1], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin flōra, from Flōra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfloː.raː/

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• Hyphenation: flo‧ra
• Rhymes: -oːraː

Noun

flora f (plural flora's)

1. flora (plant life, in particular the plant living or endemic in a certain area)

   Synonym: plantenwereld

2. flora (plant book)

   Synonyms: floragids, plantenboek

Derived terms

• darmflora
• floragids

Related terms

• Fleur
• fleurig
• florisant

Descendants

• Afrikaans: flora

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Esperanto

Etymology

From floro +‎ -a.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈflora/
• Hyphenation: flo‧ra
• Rhymes: -ora

Adjective

flora (accusative singular floran, plural floraj, accusative plural florajn)

1. (botany) floral

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Indonesian

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈflora]
• Hyphenation: flo‧ra

Noun

flora (first-person possessive floraku, second-person possessive floramu, third-person possessive floranya)

1. flora:
   1. (botany) plants considered as a group, especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc.
   2. (botany) a book describing the plants of a country, region, time, etc.
   3. (microbiology) the microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body.

Further reading

• “flora” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

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Italian

Noun

flora f (plural flore)

1. flora

Derived terms

• flora batterica

Anagrams

• farlo

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin Flora, goddess of flowers

Noun

flora m (definite singular floraen, indefinite plural floraer, definite plural floraene)

1. (botany) flora

References

• “flora” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “flora” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin Flora, goddess of flowers

Noun

flora m (definite singular floraen, indefinite plural floraer or floraar, definite plural floraene or floraane)

1. (botany) flora

References

• “flora” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Flōra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈflɔ.ra/

• Audio

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Noun

flora f

1. flora (“plants considered as a group”)

   Synonyms: roślinność, szata roślinna

   Antonym: fauna

Usage notes

• Rarely used in the plural.

Declension

declension of flora

	singular	plural
nominative	flora	flory
genitive	flory	flor
dative	florze	florom
accusative	florę	flory
instrumental	florą	florami
locative	florze	florach
vocative	floro	flory

Further reading

• flora in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Noun

flora f (plural floras)

1. flora (plants of a region considered as a group)

Related terms

• flor
• florescer
• florir

 

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flôːra/
• Hyphenation: flo‧ra

Noun

flȏra f (Cyrillic spelling фло̑ра)

1. flora

Declension

Declension of flora

	singular	plural
nominative	flora	flore
genitive	flore	flora
dative	flori	florama
accusative	floru	flore
vocative	floro	flore
locative	flori	florama
instrumental	florom	florama

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfloɾa/, [ˈflo.ɾa]

Noun

flora f (plural floras)

1. flora

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Swedish

Pronunciation

• audio

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Noun

flora c

1. flora (vegetation, book)

   Antonym: fauna

Declension

Declension of flora
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	flora	floran	floror	flororna
Genitive	floras	florans	florors	florornas