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floristic

floristic adjective: describing a region with a relatively uniform composition of plant species.

Adjective

floristic (not comparable)

  1. Describing a region with a relatively uniform composition of plant species.
    • The Lowland Fynbos is located at the southwestern tip of the African continent where it forms part of the Cape Floristic Region.
  2. Of or pertaining to floristics.
    • There is now such an immense "microliterature" on hepatics that, beyond a certain point I have given up trying to integrate (and evaluate) every minor paper published—especially narrowly floristic papers.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

Origin of floristic

From flora + -istic.

Words formed from floristic

Questions about floristic

What does floristic mean?
Floristic means describing a region with a relatively uniform composition of plant species.
What part of speech is floristic?
Floristic is an adjective.

Words near floristic in the dictionary

  1. Floris
  2. Florisbad
  3. Florissant
  4. florist
  5. florist's
  6. floristic
  7. floristical
  8. floristically
  9. floristics
  10. Floriston
  11. floristries

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