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flora

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

English

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Etymology

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From Latin Flōra (goddess of flowers).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈflɔː.ɹə/
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  • Rhymes: -ɔːɹə

Noun

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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, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →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.
    gut flora, intestinal flora
    • 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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the microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin Flōra (goddess of flowers), from flōs (“blossom”). First attested in the 20th century.

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Noun

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flora f (uncountable)

  1. flora

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Crimean Tatar

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Etymology

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From Latin Flōra (Roman goddess of flowers).

Noun

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flora

  1. flora
    Synonym: (more common) nebatat

Declension

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Declension of flora
singular plural
nominative flora floralar
genitive floranıñ floralarnıñ
dative florağa floralarğa
accusative floranı floralarnı
locative florada floralarda
ablative floradan floralardan

References

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  • Mirjejev, V. A., Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎[1], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN
  • “flora”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin flōra, from Flōra.

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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

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Descendants

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  • Afrikaans: flora

Esperanto

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Etymology

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From floro +‎ -a.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈflora]
  • Rhymes: -ora
  • Hyphenation: flo‧ra

Adjective

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

  1. (botany) floral

Indonesian

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Etymology

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

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flora (uncountable)

  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.

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Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈflɔ.ra/
  • Rhymes: -ɔra
  • Hyphenation: flò‧ra

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flora f (plural flore)

  1. flora

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From Latin Flora, goddess of flowers.

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

  1. (botany) flora

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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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)

  1. (botany) flora

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Old English

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flōra

  1. inflection of flōr:
    1. nominative/accusative plural
    2. genitive singular/plural
    3. dative singular

Polish

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin Flōra.

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Noun

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flora f

  1. flora (plants considered as a group)
    Synonyms: roślinność, szata roślinna
    Antonym: fauna

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Declension of flora
singular
nominative flora
genitive flory
dative florze
accusative florę
instrumental florą
locative florze
vocative floro

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  • flora in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • flora in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • flora in PWN's encyclopedia

Portuguese

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin Flōra (goddess of flowers).

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flora f (plural floras)

  1. flora (plants of a region considered as a group)
  2. flora (yhe microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body)
    Flora intestinal. ― Gut flora.
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Serbo-Croatian

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Pronunciation

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

Noun

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flȏra f (Cyrillic spelling фло̑ра)

  1. flora

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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

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈfloɾa/ [ˈflo.ɾa]
  • Rhymes: -oɾa
  • Syllabification: flo‧ra

Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Latin Flōra (“Flora (goddess of flowers)”).

Noun

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flora f (plural floras)

  1. flora

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Verb

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flora

  1. inflection of florar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

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Swedish

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flora c

  1. flora (vegetation, book)
    Antonym: fauna

Declension

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Declension of flora
nominative genitive
singular indefinite flora floras
definite floran florans
plural indefinite floror florors
definite flororna florornas
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