Flora

['flɔrə]

Definition

(n.) The goddess of flowers and spring.

(n.) 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.

Typist: Malcolm

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. Plants (of a country).

Checker: Stella

Definition

n. the collective plants or vegetable species of a region country or district: a work containing a descriptive enumeration of these.—adj. Flō′ral pertaining to Flora or to flowers: (bot.) containing the flower.—adv. Flō′rally.—n. Flor閍l (flō-rā-al′) the 8th month of the French revolutionary calendar April 20-May 20.—adj. Flō′reāted decorated with floral ornament.—n. Flores′cence a bursting into flower: (bot.) the time when plants flower.—adj. Flores′cent bursting into flowers.—n. Flō′ret (bot.) the flowers of any small and closely crowded inflorescence which resembles at first sight a single flower—e.g. composites teasels grasses &c.—adj. Flōricul′tural.—ns. Flō′riculture the culture of flowers or plants; Flōricul′turist a florist.—adj. Flor′id bright in colour: flushed with red: containing flowers of rhetoric or lively figures: richly ornamental.—adv. Flor′idly.—n. Flor′idness.—adjs. Flōrif′erous bearing or producing flowers; Flō′riform flower-shaped.—ns. Flōrilē′gium an anthology or collection of choice extracts; Flor′ist a cultivator of flowers: one who writes an account of plants.

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