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flora (flôr′ə, flō′rə)

noun

  1. a feminine name
  2. Rom. Myth. the goddess of flowers
    1. pl. floras -·ras or florae -·rae (-ē) the plants of a specified region or time the flora of Africa
    2. a descriptive, systematic list of such plants

Etymology: L < flos, flower: adopted by Carolus Linnaeus (1745) as term for the plants of a region

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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