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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Plants considered as a group, especially the plants of a particular country, region, or time.
  2. n. A treatise describing the plants of a region or time.
  3. n. The bacteria and other microorganisms that normally inhabit a bodily organ or part: intestinal flora.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In classical mythology, the goddess of flowers.
  2. n. [lowercase; pl. floræ, floras (-rē, -räz).] In botany: The aggregate of the plants indigenous to a particular country or region, or belonging to a particular period: as, the Australasian flora; the flora of the Carboniferous period. See fauna.
  3. n. A work systematically describing the plants of a country or region or a geological period.
  4. n. The eighth planetoid, discovered by Hind, in London, in 1847.

Wiktionary

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

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Rom. Myth.) The goddess of flowers and spring.
  2. n. (Bot.) The complete system of vegetable species growing without cultivation in a given locality, region, or period; a list or description of, or treatise on, such plants.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. all the plant life in a particular region or period
  2. n. (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion

Etymologies

  1. From Latin Flora ("goddess of flowers") (Wiktionary)
  2. From Flora. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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