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Flora
noun
1 flora
All the plant life in a particular region or period:
— The flora of southern California.
synonyms: botany, vegetation.
Roget 369:
botany;
physiological botany,
structural botany,
systematic botany;
phytography†,
phytology†,
phytotomy†;
vegetable physiology,
herborization†,
dendrology,
mycology,
fungology†,
algology†;
flora,
romona;
botanic garden
etc.
(garden)
371†;
hortus siccus [Lat.],
herbarium,
herbal.
botanist
&c.;
herbist†,
herbarist†,
herbalist,
herborist†,
herbarian†.
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Dutch: botanica, plantegroei, gewas, planteleven, plantengroei, plantenleven, vegetatie
Polish: formacja roślinna
2 flora
botany A living organism lacking the power of locomotion.
synonyms: plant, plant life.
Roget 367:
vegetable,
vegetable kingdom;
flora,
verdure.
plant;
tree,
shrub,
bush;
creeper;
herb,
herbage;
grass.
annual;
perennial,
biennial,
triennial;
exotic.
timber,
forest;
wood,
woodlands;
timberland;
hurst†,
frith†,
holt,
weald†,
park,
chase,
greenwood,
brake,
grove,
copse,
coppice,
bocage†,
tope,
clump of trees,
thicket,
spinet,
spinney;
underwood,
brushwood;
scrub;
boscage,
bosk†,
ceja [Sp.],
chaparal,
motte [U.S.];
arboretum
etc.
371.
bush,
jungle,
prairie;
heath,
heather;
fern,
bracken;
furze,
gorse,
whin;
grass,
turf;
pasture,
pasturage;
turbary†;
sedge,
rush,
weed;
fungus,
mushroom,
toadstool;
lichen,
moss,
conferva†,
mold;
growth;
alfalfa,
alfilaria†,
banyan;
blow,
blowth†;
floret†,
petiole;
pin grass,
timothy,
yam,
yew,
zinnia.
foliage,
branch,
bough,
ramage†,
stem,
tigella†;
spray
etc.
51;
leaf.
flower,
blossom,
bine†;
flowering plant;
timber tree,
fruit tree;
pulse,
legume.
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Dutch: gewas, vegetatie, plantenleven
Polish: roślina
Moby thesaurus: Ceres, Cora, Demeter, Dionysos, Dionysus, Frey, Gaea, Gaia, Kore, Persephassa, Persephone, Pomona, Proserpina, Proserpine, Triptolemos, Triptolemus, corn god, fertility god, forest god, vegetation spirit.
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