flora
noun
the plants of a particular region or period, listed by species and considered as a whole.
floras
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pluralof flora.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Of the 1,000 or so species of floras in the park, lodgepole pine and the duff from its fallen needles and branches provided most of the fuel for the fires.
From Time Magazine Archive
This would be important, especially in countries where the flora has been treated by some resident botanist, and the kinds and species proper to these local floras should, if possible, be obtained.
From Movement of the International Literary Exchanges, between France and North America from January 1845 to May, 1846 With Instructions for Collecting, Preparing, and Forwarding Objects of Natural History Written by The Professors Administrators of The Museum Of Natural History At Paris. And Instructions Relative to Anthropology and Zoology by Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
The forests are thus highly diversified and partake of the characteristics of both the northern and southern floras.
From North America by Israel C. (Cook) Russell
The question of the mode in which the floras of islands and of continents have been formed gave rise to important speculations by such eminent botanical travellers as Charles Darwin, Sir J.D.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" by Various
Geology, je-ol′o-ji, n. the science relating to the history and development of the earth's crust, together with the several floras and faunas which have successively clothed and peopled its surface.—ns.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
