Other forms: floras
Flora is the plants of a region taken together. The flora of the island, flora and fauna, native flora.
It pairs with fauna, the animals, and the two words go together so often that flora and fauna is almost one term. Gut flora is the older name for the bacteria living in the intestine, now usually called the microbiome.
1nounfloraThe plants of a region taken together.
“The island's flora includes many plants that grow nowhere else in the world.”
flora is plant life.
Latin Flora was the goddess of flowers, from flos, a flower. Linnaeus used the name for a catalogue of plants.
Proto-Indo-European
*bʰleh₃-
Latin
Flōra
English, today
flora
From Latin Flōra.
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