florae

Noun

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.
   • Thirdly, I continue to attempt to interdigitate the taxa in our flora with taxa of the remainder of the world.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
2. A book describing the plants of a country, region, time, etc.
   • The garden is also involved in producing floras of North and Central America, Madagascar, and various countries in South America and Africa.1990 August, Boyd Gibbons, “Missouri's Garden of Consequence”, in National Geographic, volume 178, number 2, pages 138-140
3. The microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body.
   • gut flora, intestinal flora

   Synonyms:

   microflora

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