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isoflor

isoflor noun: an isoline on a map that connects areas where a given number of plant taxa can be found, particularly species within a certain genus or family.

Noun

isoflor (plural isoflors)

  1. An isoline on a map that connects areas where a given number of plant taxa can be found, particularly species within a certain genus or family.
    • Isoflor maps do not show actual species distributions, but each line is a contour delimiting a greater or lesser concentration of species. The species distributions for each species is plotted onto one sectional map, then contours are drawn around areas of similar species concentration. The isoflor...1985, Nigel Maxted, An Ecogeographical Study of Vicia Subgenus Vicia, page 93
  2. An isoline on a map that connects sites with similar Eocene fossil floras.
    • But by drawing lines known as isoflors we may approximate the positions of Eocene isotherms. These lines connect floras of the same general composition, which are assumed to indicate, as do similar floras to-day, essentially the same climatic background. The isoflor connecting the localities where...1940, Ralph W. Chaney, “Bearing of Forests on the Theory of Continental Drift”, in The Scientific Monthly, volume 51, number 6, pages 489–499

Examples of isoflor in a sentence

  • Isoflor maps do not show actual species distributions, but each line is a contour delimiting a greater or lesser concentration of species.1985, Nigel Maxted, An Ecogeographical Study of Vicia Subgenus Vicia, page 93:
  • But by drawing lines known as isoflors we may approximate the positions of Eocene isotherms.1940, Ralph W. Chaney, “Bearing of Forests on the Theory of Continental Drift”, in The Scientific Monthly, volume 51, number 6, pages...

Forms of isoflor

pluralisoflors

Origin of isoflor

From iso- + clipping of flora. The Eocene fossil sense was first employed by Chaney in 1940 (see quotations).

Questions about isoflor

What does isoflor mean?
Isoflor means an isoline on a map that connects areas where a given number of plant taxa can be found, particularly species within a certain genus or family.
How do you use isoflor in a sentence?
Isoflor maps do not show actual species distributions, but each line is a contour delimiting a greater or lesser concentration of species.
What part of speech is isoflor?
Isoflor is a noun.
What is the plural of isoflor?
The plural of isoflor is isoflors.

Words near isoflor in the dictionary

  1. isoflavonoids
  2. isoflavonol
  3. isoflavonols
  4. isoflavonone
  5. isoflavonones
  6. isoflor
  7. isoflorane
  8. isoflors
  9. isoflourane
  10. isofluorane
  11. isofluoranes

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