flora
/ˈflɔː.ɹə/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.70 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Plants considered as a group, especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc.
Countable; Uncountable
name
the goddess of flowers, nature and spring; she is also the wife of Favonius and the mother of Karpos. She is the Roman counterpart of Chloris.
name
A female given name from Latin.
name
A surname.
name
A number of places in the United States:
Example Sentences
- "Thirdly, I continue to attempt to interdigitate the taxa in our flora with taxa of the remainder of the world."
- "The garden is also involved in producing floras of North and Central America, Madagascar, and various countries in South America and Africa."
- "He intended to publish a flora of the island, and drafted out a synonymic catalogue, into which he inserted from time to time elaborate descriptions drawn up from living specimens of the species which he was able to procure."
- "Nowhere was the victory of Linnaeanism more complete than in Britain. When William Hudson's Flora Anglica, organized in the Linnaean manner, appeared in 1762, it displaced all previous floras."
- "gut flora, intestinal flora"
- "The host effects upon the flora of both the small intestine and the large intestine must be examined."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *bʰleh₃-, Flōra