1. flora(n = noun.group) botany, vegetation - all the plant life in a particular region or period; "Pleistocene vegetation"; "the flora of southern California"; "the botany of China"
is a kind of accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection
is a member of biology, biota
has particulars: browse, brush, brushwood, coppice, copse, thicket, growth, bush, chaparral, scrub, stand, forest, wood, woods, shrubbery, garden, brier, brier patch, brierpatch, ground cover, groundcover
Antonym: fauna
2. flora(n = noun.tops) plant, plant life - (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion; Array
is a kind of being, organism
has parts: cap, hood, plant part, plant structure
is a member of kingdom plantae, plant kingdom, plantae
has particulars: phytoplankton, microflora, crop, endemic, holophyte, non-flowering plant, plantlet, wilding, ornamental, pot plant, acrogen, apomict, aquatic, cryptogam, annual, biennial, perennial, escape, hygrophyte, neophyte, embryo, monocarp, monocarpic plant, monocarpous plant, sporophyte, gametophyte, houseplant, garden plant, tracheophyte, vascular plant, poisonous plant, aerophyte, air plant, epiphyte, epiphytic plant, rock plant, autophyte, autophytic plant, autotroph, autotrophic organism, myrmecophyte
Derived form adjective floral3
1. The goddess of flowers and spring. [1913 Webster]
2. 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. [1913 Webster]
flora, n. (pl. floras or florae)
1 the plants of a particular region, geological period, or environment.
2 a treatise on or list of these.
Etymology:
mod.L f. the name of the goddess of flowers f. L flos floris flower
N 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, chaparal, motte, arboretum, 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, leaf, flower, blossom, bine, flowering plant, timber tree, fruit tree, pulse, legume, vegetable, vegetal, vegetive, vegitous, herbaceous, herbal, botanic, sylvan, silvan, arborary, arboreous, arborescent, arborical, woody, grassy, verdant, verdurous, floral, mossy, lignous, ligneous, wooden, leguminous, vosky, cespitose, turf-like, turfy, endogenous, exogenous, green-robed senators of mighty woods, this is the forest primeval.
N botany, physiological botany, structural botany, systematic botany, phytography, phytology, phytotomy, vegetable physiology, herborization, dendrology, mycology, fungology, algology, flora, romona, botanic garden, hortus siccus, herbarium, herbal, botanist, herbist, herbarist, herbalist, herborist, herbarian, botanical, botanic.