Plural of flora

Forms of flora

Floras and florae in a sentence

• 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
• When William Hudson's Flora Anglica, organized in the Linnaean manner, appeared in 1762, it displaced all previous floras.2000, Daniel R. Headrick, When Information Came of Age, page 26
• The floras of Venezuela, the Guyanas and Brazil are poor in respect to gongoras.1996, Orchids: The Magazine of the American Orchid Society. From the entry gongora
• Currently, seeds assignable to Nitaspermum are recorded only from the early to mid-Albian mesofossil floras at Puddledock and Kenilworth localities, eastern North America.2018, Else Marie Friis, Peter R. Crane, Kaj R. Pedersen, “17: Fossil Seeds with Affinities to Austrobaileyales and Nymphaeales From the…. From the entry mesofossil
• 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.1940, Ralph W. Chaney, “Bearing of Forests on the Theory of Continental Drift”, in The Scientific Monthly, volume 51, number 6, pages…. From the entry isoflor

Meaning of flora

1. noun Plants considered as a group, especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc.
2. noun A book describing the plants of a country, region, time, etc.
3. noun The microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body.

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Questions about the plural of flora

What is the plural of flora?

The plural of flora is floras or florae.

Which is correct, floras or florae?

Both are used. floras is the more common of the two in English writing.

Is flora countable?

Flora is a countable and uncountable noun.