"flora" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈflɔː.ɹə/ Audio: en-us-flora.ogg [US] Forms: floras [plural], florae [plural], floræ [plural]
Rhymes: -ɔːɹə Etymology: From Latin Flōra (goddess of flowers). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*bʰleh₃-}}, {{der|en|la|Flōra|pos=goddess of flowers}} Latin Flōra (goddess of flowers) Head templates: {{en-noun|~|s|florae|floræ}} 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. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (plants considered as a group): 植物群 (zhíwùqún) (Chinese Mandarin), květena [feminine] (Czech), flóra [feminine] (Czech), plantaro (Esperanto), flaŭro (Esperanto), kasvisto (Finnish), flore [feminine] (French), flora [feminine] (Galician), ფლორა (plora) (Georgian), Flora [feminine] (German), Pflanzenreich [neuter] (German), Pflanzenwelt [feminine] (German), χλωρίδα (chlorída) [feminine] (Greek), flóra (Hungarian), flóra [feminine] (Icelandic), gróðurríki [neuter] (Icelandic), flora [feminine] (Italian), 植物相 (shokubutsusō) (alt: しょくぶつそう) (Japanese), augalija [feminine] (Lithuanian), ngāi tipu (Maori), پوشش گیاهی (Persian), گیاگان (giyâgân) (Persian), flora [feminine] (Polish), flora [feminine] (Portuguese), floră [feminine] (Romanian), фло́ра (flóra) [feminine] (Russian), flora [feminine] (Spanish), flora [common-gender] (Swedish), talahalmanan (Tagalog), planem (Volapük)
    Sense id: en-flora-en-noun-sUAp-eIU Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 38 26 36 Disambiguation of 'plants considered as a group': 84 14 2
  2. A book describing the plants of a country, region, time, etc. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (a book describing the plants of a country etc.): 植物志 (zhíwùzhì) (Chinese Mandarin), kasvio (Finnish), flore [feminine] (French), flora [feminine] (Galician), flóra (Hungarian), flóra [feminine] (Icelandic), 植物誌 (shokubutsushi) (alt: しょくぶつし) (Japanese), фло́ра (flóra) [feminine] (Russian), flora [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-flora-en-noun-tMi10yoo Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 38 26 36 Disambiguation of 'a book describing the plants of a country etc.': 23 74 3
  3. The microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms (microorganisms): microflora Translations (the microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body): floora (Estonian), floora (Finnish), mikrofloora (Finnish), mikrobisto (Finnish), flore intestinale [feminine] (French), flora [feminine] (Galician), Flora [feminine] (German), flóra (Hungarian), flóra [feminine] (Icelandic), flora [feminine] (Italian), فلور طبیعی (Persian), floră [feminine] (Romanian), floră microbială [feminine] (Romanian), floră bacterială (Romanian), floră intestinală [feminine] (Romanian), фло́ра (flóra) [feminine] (Russian), flora [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-flora-en-noun--4hnpC-9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 38 26 36 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 30 29 41 Disambiguation of 'microorganisms': 12 9 79 Disambiguation of 'the microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body': 3 2 95
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Hypernyms: biota Derived forms: bacterial flora, dendroflora, disaster flora, ethnoflora, Flora Day, lamp flora Coordinate_terms: fauna, funga

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          "text": "1947, Adelaide Evangeline Evenson, The Intestinal Flora of Laboratory Animals and Its Modification by Diet and Drugs:",
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          "text": "1977, Betty H. K. Dee, The Aerobic Bacterial Flora of the Intestinal Tract of Marine Fishes:",
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          "ref": "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",
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        {
          "text": "1947, Adelaide Evangeline Evenson, The Intestinal Flora of Laboratory Animals and Its Modification by Diet and Drugs:",
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        },
        {
          "text": "1977, Betty H. K. Dee, The Aerobic Bacterial Flora of the Intestinal Tract of Marine Fishes:",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "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",
          "text": "The host effects upon the flora of both the small intestine and the large intestine must be examined.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003 December 11, Moselio Schaechter, Desk Encyclopedia of Microbiology, Elsevier, page 520",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 March 31, Chetana Vaishnavi, Infections of the Gastrointestinal System, JP Medical Ltd, page 5",
          "text": "[…] Lactobacillus, Pseudomonas, Bifidobacterium, Eubacterium, Peptococcus, Peptostreptococcus, Bacteroides and Spirochetes that characterize the flora of the large intestine.",
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      "sense": "plants considered as a group",
      "word": "植物群"
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      "tags": [
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      "sense": "plants considered as a group",
      "word": "ფლორა"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "plants considered as a group",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "Flora"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "plants considered as a group",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "el",
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      "sense": "plants considered as a group",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "plants considered as a group",
      "word": "flóra"
    },
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      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "plants considered as a group",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "code": "is",
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      "sense": "plants considered as a group",
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      "word": "gróðurríki"
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      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "plants considered as a group",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
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      "alt": "しょくぶつそう",
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      "sense": "plants considered as a group",
      "word": "植物相"
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      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "plants considered as a group",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "augalija"
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      "code": "mi",
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      "sense": "plants considered as a group",
      "word": "ngāi tipu"
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      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "sense": "plants considered as a group",
      "word": "پوشش گیاهی"
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      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "giyâgân",
      "sense": "plants considered as a group",
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      "tags": [
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      "code": "pt",
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "фло́ра"
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      "code": "sv",
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      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "plants considered as a group",
      "word": "talahalmanan"
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      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "plants considered as a group",
      "word": "planem"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "zhíwùzhì",
      "sense": "a book describing the plants of a country etc.",
      "word": "植物志"
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "a book describing the plants of a country etc.",
      "word": "kasvio"
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      "sense": "a book describing the plants of a country etc.",
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      "tags": [
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      "code": "hu",
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      "sense": "a book describing the plants of a country etc.",
      "word": "flóra"
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      "code": "is",
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      "sense": "a book describing the plants of a country etc.",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "flóra"
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      "alt": "しょくぶつし",
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      "word": "植物誌"
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    {
      "code": "ru",
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      "sense": "a book describing the plants of a country etc.",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "фло́ра"
    },
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "a book describing the plants of a country etc.",
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    },
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      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "the microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body",
      "word": "floora"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "the microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body",
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    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "the microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body",
      "word": "mikrofloora"
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "the microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body",
      "word": "mikrobisto"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "the microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "flore intestinale"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "the microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "flora"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "the microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Flora"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "the microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body",
      "word": "flóra"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "the microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "flóra"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "the microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "flora"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "sense": "the microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body",
      "word": "فلور طبیعی"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "the microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "floră"
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    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "the microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "floră microbială"
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    {
      "code": "ro",
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      "sense": "the microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body",
      "word": "floră bacterială"
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      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "the microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "floră intestinală"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "flóra",
      "sense": "the microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "фло́ра"
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "the microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body",
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