florula
Britishnoun
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the flora of a small single environment
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a fossil flower found in a single stratum or in several thin adjacent strata
Etymology
Origin of florula
C19: flora + -ule
Example Sentences
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Florula Lapponica, quæ continet catalogum plantarum, quas per provincias Lapponicas Westrobothnienses observavit C. Linnæus.
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Florula, the flora of a small district.
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Florula Cestrica: an Essay towards a Catalogue of the Phœnogamous Plants, native and naturalized, growing in the vicinity of the borough of West-Chester, in Chester County, Pennsylvania; with brief notices of their Properties and Uses, in Medicine, rural Economy and the Arts.
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Two naturalists have published a Florula Obsidionalis, which, as its name partly indicates, is a catalogue of the accidental flora of the late investment of Paris.
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Bigelow's delightful "Florula Bostoniensis" is becoming a series of epitaphs.
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